material: marble-resin | dimension: 33x33x32 | year: 2010 … in abandonment….I set my journey free from the yoke of the earth … How many times we have had an experience which has lead us to a mental journey, symbol of freedom, of non-stopping departures to an always different landing – a journey able to bring us to fantastic routes, places of desire, intriguing situations… without moving and often in the utmost silence. A tale, a story, a perfume, simply a thought, amazingly a book, made us begin a journey where, if you surrender, you move forward. The viaticum gets a conceptual value where everything is possible, everything can be inverted, where feet give way to mind.

materiale: bronze | dimension: 30x30x100 | year: 2010

material: marble, resin | dimension: 40x40x220 | anno: 2010 “Shadows, mute or speaking, go directly deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” Ingmar Bergman, lanterna magica 1987 With this quote from Bergman’s autobiography I wanted to highlight the power of cinema, its ability to talk with our inner self and to leave a sign in our mind. I’ve been dreaming of making a tribute to cinema for a long time – probably since the very day when I realized its impact and its social and human contribution. Therefore, a very important occasion of consideration: the cinema that improves and “grows” along with whoever promotes it who, doing so, expresses his/her celebration of life in all its different aspects, positive and negative, in a meaningful and edifying way. It has the great capacity to influence the human nature. Here is why the choice of using the cinema as an educational means is, in my opinion, very interesting and relevant – because explaining ideas by images can be an effective and easy-to-understand language. In this work, the faces going around the head, like interchangeable masks, emphasize the theatrical and fictional side of cinema. They have such solid identities that they look real, they move us or they bring us to new dimensions. The body of the sculpture, with some posters, becomes a tribute to Italian cinema which represent a “growing” and edifying cinema.

material: marble, resin | dimension: 40x40x200 | anno: 2010 Essence arrives in silence…like a gift…permeating with its fragrance nostrils and mind…in the silence, it make us recalls…experiences encounters. Again, the silence is the leading subject of a communicative experience. The scent is the medium of this message, that essence which quietly arrives like a gift, permeating with its hints our nostrils and thus opening the rooms of the mind. In the silence, the mystery of this scent reveals itself following the trace left on our memory, recalling past experiences and encounters. A new sudden situation talks to us about things, places and people, in a shiver of eyes movements. We try to live again, meet and give an answer to this olfactory call. Who? Where? What? A pleasure to breath, a seduction to enjoy, a fragrance to live on and to go into raptures about.

material: bronze | dimension: 10x5x282 | year: 2010

material: bronze | dimension: 70x60x70 | year: 2010

material: bronz | dimension: 50x20x30 | year: 2013

GHIBELLINI

material: cotto di argilla toscana| dimension: 16x34x48| anno: 2013

Everything and fickle by children, the joy and the pain is chasing. It is the extraordinary capacity to dream that projects them toward tomorrow.

The youth challenge the universe experiencing every possible track risking the feats of this age and the chills of love.

Each project of love in which you do not cease believing is the source of grace.

The tender gaze of those who has traveled the life simply and with a humble gesture of gratitude does not look to the fatigue of the years.

vedi le opere

AIDA e AMNERIS

material: bronze | dimension: 210x50x40 | year: 2008 A tribute to opera and Italian pride – a sculptural interpretation of the famous score by Giuseppe Verdi. The magic of silence envelops Aida and Amneris’s looks while they are pitting against each other. Each one of them want to beat the other and conquer Radames’s heart.

material: bronze | dimension: 30x15x30 | year: 2007

materiale: bronze | dimension: 60x20x20 | year: 1998

materiale: marble resin | dimension: 180x60x60 | year: 2005 Everybody’s life is a wait. The present isn’t enough for anybody. At first, it looks like something is missing – then, we realize we miss someone, and we wait for him/her.

material: bronze | dimension: 55x50x15 | year:1996

material: ceramic, enamel | sizes: 60x20x20 | year:1998 …what silence can’t keep…

material: marble-resin | sizes: 80x20x15 | year:2006 Endless talks and attitudes…. Talking…backbiting…chatting….Without actually saying anything or getting nowhere. A buzzing which frays your mind which claims for Silence and peace. Mabe

material: marble-resin |sizes: 180x70x40 | year:2005

material: bronz |sizes: 70x25x25 | year:1997 …silence is also amazement… in front of a work whose richness lies in the details, in constant comparison with the pithiness of essential works… MaBe

material: bronz | sizes: 68x18x18 | year:1997

material: marble-resin| sizes:50x50x10 | year:2005 …a gift is a warm soundless thought… …it offers itself simply, like a flower… …generating wonder and amazement….

material: bronz| sizes:50x50x10 |year:2011

material: silver-stucco| | year:2008

material: silver-Florentine terracotta| year:2008

material: silver-Florentine terracotta| year:2008

material: silver ceramic| year:2008

material: bronz| sizes:34x33x30 | year:2009

material: bronz| sizes:80x30x30 | year:2009

 

material: bronz| sizes:180x30x30 | year:2007 …Books on the head…Balance.. From the perspective of silence, being our exterior, our attitude displays us. Dignified, composed, unassuming, ridiculous, voiceless, it says something about us. Mabe