Stilleben

I chose to call this group of paintings “Stilleben”, using the German term in its literary sense, “silent lifes” because they are executed in the old tradition of still life but with a certain irony and irreverence.

They represent the silent dialogue between living animals and dead objects and question the age-old relationship between man, nature and living things. In some of the pictures there are traces of the work of the first modern biologists whilst in others there is attention to the bond between contemporary man and the animals that share his life.