Statement

Artist Statement


I was born artistically at the age of seven in 1977.

One August morning my father had the bright idea of buying me a "SPIDER-MAN" comic book that had already been published in America in 1966. I was astonished when I admired for the first time the wonderful drawings by John Romita Sr. that would be the inspiration for Roy Lichtenstein's Pop Art in the years to come.


John Romita Sr.

Everything I observe takes on a cartoonish vision.

Still images invade my mind, from comics to television, from music to design, the concept of "Beauty" that accompanies my childhood pours into my works in a reality sometimes "revised" and much more romantic to be able to shelter me from the ugliness of everyday life, and where the colors of the superheroes' costumes, yellow red and blue, become absolute protagonists.

John Romita Sr.

Before creating my paintings, I sometimes design, in pencil on paper, complex and detailed architectural compositions of monuments and buildings. Wonders and places of the world are the backdrop to comic book characters in the foreground, who are then adapted to new settings.

Bozzetto

In the need to keep alive the emotions of my childhood, through my works mostly a tribute to John Romita Sr., I invite the viewer to enter my inner world, stimulating the imagination and arousing emotions.

Pasolini a Catania
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