Alma Venus

Alma Venus is a series of paintings on paper linked to De Rerum Natura, by Lucretius. The analogy between the poem and the drawings refers to themes connected to mythology and subconscious: the title of the artwork comes from the start of the poem: an invocation to Venus. Oneiric atmospheres and surreal settings give a new reading of the relationship between man and nature, in which the man is one of the elements of the microcosm such as snakes, roots, plants and fantastic creatures.
A young lady fights, wrapped in viper coils. Above her a massive stone is laying. The symbolic representation belongs to a narration that refers to collective and private memories, coming out from the deepest aspects of the imaginary. It offers different themes: a young lady bound by a snake refers to the hard passage from childhood to adult age; the loss of the face symbolizes the identity crisis; the floating roots and the landscape fragments suggest a visionary world.