Biography
I essentially create my works with herbal essences that I choose for their aesthetic and vegetative characteristics. I like grass because it's apparently so poor, simple; because, if not maintained, it takes over the work. It grows, evolves and needs attention and care as any other living being in order not to perish. It needs water, light, proper temperature. It is a framed piece of life, a being with its own history and its own path, born from the happy meeting of different factors. Although it is hanging on a wall, like any work of art, it is not still. Silently, slowly, its shoots grow, change color and shape, can get sick, yellow, dry out and die or live. My work is successful only when meeting someone who can share its spirit, taking care of it and start a new kind of relation, non-univocal, with the artist. Owning a piece of art like this means, for both artist and collector, starting a common route in which the first acts as a guide in maintaining, cutting and feeding the work while the second follows its growing and evolution through a direct and physical relationship that allows the acquisition of a new sensibility towards "nature". With my artistic research I try to express in a powerful and coherent way, avoiding words or conceptual installations, my idea of respect for the environment. My grass works are framed as for an old-fashion style, sometime ironic, and to remark that they're not gardening or design objects. My experiences in sculpture, painting and installations, come together in these works, with no need for a precise category or recognizable style. What I pursue is immediacy of art and of its reading with preference for innovative and sometime spectacular aspects, for abstract geometries, minimalist and also figurative aesthetics.
