Artist Statement 

Easthampton MA 2006

 

 

I believe that the attitude of an artist in his work should be a kind of “super view” of everything in the world, in his society, without a precise scope or meaning but each work should mean by itself as any creature is in an organic relation with it’s own environment.

 

We live in a culture devoted to words. So many conversations about Truth, Justice, Environment, about Beauty. Our incessant chatter erodes meaning.

A culture saturated with images and signs. We cannot stop looking, but we look at hundreds and thousands of pictures every day of our lives. Everything is so quick, ready-made; we have lost the consciousness of what are we doing or where we are going; we are almost able to be (unconsciously) into the mechanism of a subliminal/virtual flow of inputs and impulses. Everything is so quick, so available. We have lost the capacity for “Stillness” running around with a very strange conception of the “Time.”

 

We are slaves to technique, but technique does not exist in and on itself. Technique should be a tool, not a meaning, it should help and respond to our needs or help the creative action. It is not a lever to increase and increase imitations.

 

We want to understand, measure, define, with an amazing hard work of our brains supported by antediluvian rational methods. We try to help ourselves with classifications, “isms” and pre-made concepts. There is not enough space for humanity, for a simple way of being.

 

Painting, to me, is a chance to achieve my consciousness. It is a kind of meditation of an empty moment, an interruption of time, in which everything can be possible but just by waiting. Everyday, standing in front of the canvas, painting and waiting for something to happen. The process is to submit only to a poetical search, or wait of a deep meaning, a kind of revelation of a natural grace of being.

 

In my paintings, I try to activate the need for stillness through a slow discovery of the layers, of colors, lights and forms; a slow acquisition of the “equilibriums.”

Through this mode of perceiving, my hope is to raise the attitude of listening to the world around us.

The subject is not as important as the journey to the event or final result is, in some way to me, it’s a pre-test. My attention is mainly with the search of what is the deepest t level of truth in the painting itself.