Biography
My exploration derives from a book by Gilles Deleuze, which is important to me since it develops Jean-François Lyotard’s extraordinary intuition of the “figural”; I recognized this as a possible direction to follow and explore, though I am aware I cannot possibly stop here.Thinking that one only needs to use or re-invent new media, in order to feel part of the present-day debate, is extremely reductive. Of course, a nostalgic attitude towards a recovery of painting, hether figurative or abstract, has had its day; my figural bodies place themselves entirely outside all this. My choice of painting as a medium is not merely intended to exalt
“the origins”, but rather to render material what cannot be represented, by giving shape to the shapeless.
My interest in the transformation of sensitive matter
appears clear from the titles of my works: my bodies unfold, gain space and become space, they attempt to give shape to the evaporation of matter which becomes the body itself. Colour constructs the surface of the canvas through liquid layers, traces of an organic stage, matter in its energetic potential which, at the same time, becomes a palpable bassrelief of sensations. My brushwork gives life to forces within the sensitive field, which literally cause the body to explode and unfold on the surface, thus creating an alternative space, even improbable places. The body is never complete; it is
dismembered, maimed, and at the same time moves within space while multiplying and dislocating. Shape is forever unresolved, constantly fighting in an impossible attempt to define itself.
