The Tree of Life

Two principal themes are continually interwoven throughout his artistic research: viewing nature as an inexhaustible generator of forms, as “artis magistrae” or “the teacher of art”, and the exploration of art’s ability to be a “theatre of evocation”, capable of establishing mysterious relationships with worlds distant in time and space.

“The Tree of Life”, a metaphor of biodiversity, both in its iconographic and symbolic significance, consists of graphic works produced through varying techniques (watercolour, India ink, pastel, oil paint, etching, acrylics, often melded together with an alchemistic and experimental spirit) where animal life is represented in illustrations that draw from the origins of zoology, in which impartial research was always contaminated by the wonder of the extraordinary variety of Creation.

It is also the zoomorphic representation of Mannerism’s sculptural and ornamental elements, the infantile depiction of animals and, more generally, the author’s “enchanted” representation of the animal world that surrounds us. All this results in a Magic Realism of sorts, fusing together the diversity of shapes and colours found in nature, giving life to fascinating and richly detailed works.