Haud procul hinc petitur signatus ab Hercule portus;
Vergentem sequitur mollior aura diem
Rutilio Namaziano; De Reditu suo l.i, vv 293-294
In the fall of 417 d.c. Claudio Rutilio Namaziano, Governor of Rome, embarks on a long back journey , from the capital of empire, now devastated by the great invasions of the peoples of northern Europe to his homeland of Gaul,
The journey takes place during the period when the Roman civilization is shocked by incursions of people, who leave in their wake, death and ruins.
Namaziano leaves us the memory of the journey in a poem “De Reditu” diary in verse that came to us incomplete.
The journey it takes place at sea, to avoid the risk of an overland route; From the port of Rome, along the Tyrrhenian coast in small steps, touching the islands and headlands, swamps and beaches, villas and villages, until it was lost over Pisa and the mouth of the Arno, till to the Gallic land, that the diary doesn’t describe.
In the diary emerge from the distant past, intense stretches of landscapes and encounters, images and reflections marked by a thin deep sadness and for remembering the past, polished and passionate, resigned to events that prevail and mark the destiny.
I caught a sense of absolute relevance of poetic journey of Namaziano.
I believe that in the memory of everyone there is a view, a story, an image, an impression, a feeling, a landscape that, even left behind, survives in silence in a hidden corner and then comes on again in certain moments with shapes, lights, bright colors or faded, but still unmistakable.
I proposed some images in the way that the memory has preserved and handed down.
2015 June
2011
Oil on canvas panel - 24 x 30 cm
Private collection, Florence, Italy
2015
Oil on canvas - 20 x 40 cm
Private collection, Augsburg, Germany
2015
Oil on canvas - 25 x 50 cm
Private collection, Florence, Italy
oil on canvas panel cm 30 x 40
private collection . Berlin
2013
oil on canvas 35 x 50
private collection - Florence Italy
This work was exhibited:
At the solo <Landschaften - Landscapes > in “48 Stunden – Neukolln“ – Berlin 2015
At the international exhibition <Artisti dal mondo a Firenze per Expo 2015> ICLAB – Florence 2015
In the Donatello Hall of the Basilica of San Lorenzo - Florence at the International Exhibition <MMXVII; Il cammino dell’uomo tra arte e fede; da Ugo Guidi a Igor Mitoraj> - Florence 2017).
2012
Oil on canvas panel, 30 x 40
Private collection, Bologna, Italy
2012
Oil on canvas, 30 x 40
Private collection, Florence, Italy
2012
Oil on canvas, 40 x 50
Private collection, Arezzo, Italy
2015
Oil on canvas panel, 25 x 35
Private collection, Berlin, Germany
2012
oil on canvas panel - 24 x 30
private collection - Florence Italy
2012
oil on canvas panel - 25 x 35
private collection - Berlin Germany
2015
oil on canvas - 20 x 40
private collection - Berlin Germany
2011
oil on canvas - 40 x 60
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2013
oil on canvas - 30 x 50
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2019
oil on canvas - 20 x 20 cm
private collection - Pistoia, Italy
2020
oil on canvas - 30 x 30 cm
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“The theme of the ruins, present in painting since the seventeenth century, invites us to reflect on the inexorable passage of time and on the persistence of values handed down from the past. [...] In this sense we see them represented in the work of Arnaldo Marini, whose reflection on the sense of time is set in small rural realities or villages perched on the mountains. [...]Thes e places become in the artist's interpretation, an emblematic image of memory and the traces that survived the fragility of the human story.
The artist captures and re-elaborates these signs with a language centered on the evocative power of light [...]. The volumetric masses occupy the space with regular geometric shapes that are repeated in a continuous play of chiaroscuro. In some cases, the effect of the atmospheric fading generated by light suggests a dimension in balance between proximity and distance, concrete reality and immaterial projection. It is a way to place the scene in a space - time suspension, as if that represented was a vision dreamed of or surfaced by memory.” (Daniela Pronestì)
In my village, the man is apparently absent: but the village is the same subject and concrete witness of the man of his work and his history, then it is as if the human presence were the subject itself of the work.
It is a village full of memories and meanings that I have hidden among the volumetric masses, the colors, the shadows, the patinas of ancient walls, the silences
2020
oil on canvas – 35 x 45
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2013
Oil on canvas - 35 x 50 cm
Private collection, Florence, Italy
This work was exhibited:
At the solo <Landschaften - Landscapes > in “48 Stunden – Neukolln“ – Berlin 2015
At the international exhibition <Artisti dal mondo a Firenze per Expo 2015> ICLAB – Florence 2015
In the Donatello Hall of the Basilica of San Lorenzo - Florence at the International Exhibition <MMXVII; Il cammino dell’uomo tra arte e fede; da Ugo Guidi a Igor Mitoraj> - Florence 2017).
2015
oil on canvas - 28 x 35 cm
privsate collection - Tel Aviv, Israel
2015
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2015
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2016
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2015
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2016
oil on canvas -. 30 x 60
private collection - Florence, Italy
This work was exhibited:
At the solo <Dorfer - Villeges> in “48 stunden – Neukolln“ – Berlin 2016
in the Donatello Hall of the Basilica of San Lorenzo - Florence at the International Exhibition <Presenze nell’arte contemporane: emergenti del XXI secolo a maestri del XX secolo> Florence - 2018).
2016
oil on canvas - 40 x 80 cm
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2017
oil on canvas - 30 x 60 cm
private collection - Florence, Italy
2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2016
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2017
Oil on canvas - 40 x 80 cm
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This work was exhibited:
At <XXXV Premio Firenze> Florence 2017 (Finalist)
At <International Art Award “San Crispino”> Porto Sant’Elpidio 2017 (Special Award)
At <International Art Award “Ligures – città di Lerici> Lerici 2018 (Winner)
in the Donatello Hall of the Basilica of San Lorenzo - Florence at the International Exhibition <Presenze nell’arte contemporanea: emergenti del XXI secolo a maestri del XX secolo> Florence - 2018).
2017
oil on canvas - 40 x 50 cm
private collection - Pietrasanta, Italy
2017
Oil on canvas - 40 x 80 cm
Private collection, Pietrasanta, Italy
2016
Oil on canvas - 50 x 70 cm
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2017
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2017
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2018
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2019
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2019
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2019
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2019
oil on canvas - 30 x 30 cm
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2019
oil on canvas - 50 x 50 cm
private collection - Bologna, Italy
2019
oil on canvas - 50 x 50
private collection - Turin, Italy
2019
oil on canvas - 20 x 20 cm
private collection - Pistoia, Italy
2019
oil on canvas - 20 x 20 cm
private collection - Pistoia, Italy
2019
oil on canvas - 20 x 20 cm
private collection - Pistoia, Italy
2019
oil on canvas - 60 x 60 cm
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2019
oil on canvas - 20 x 30 cm
private collection - Vermont, USA
2020
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2019
oil on canvas - 20 x 30
private collection - New York, USA
I leave the village of the man, its truths and its certainties.
I start from a village of memories of history, witness of the past and a sentinel of the present.
I walk through difficult dark and unknown paths, I travel into the depths of continents without memory of the past, certainty of the present, hope of the future.
I discover huge ambiguous human chasms outside the paths of knowledge of current events and the normality of our present, where time compresses and cancels memory.
Children women men run away under the weight of heaps of rubble under the weight of destruction, they run away from a deep night of mind and reason deprived of their roots, stripped of memory without past and future, they run away to conquer a future of hunger, homelessness,
Refugees in the world; thousands of children, women, men, live a single eternal present,
Themselves history, free souls, prisoners of the world.
2018
Olio on canvas - 100 x 150
private collection -. Florence, Italy
This work was exhibited:
in the Donatello Hall of the Basilica of San Lorenzo - Florence at the International Exhibition <Presenze nell’arte contemporanea emergenti del XXI secolo a maestri del XX secolo> Florence - 2018).
At <International Art Award “San Crispino”> Porto Sant’Elpidio 2018 (Special Award)
2018
Oil on canvas - 30 x 60 cm
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2018
Oil on canvas - 100 x 100 cm
private collection - Florence, Italy
This work was exhibited:
in the Donatello Hall of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence at the international exhibition <Presenze nell’arte contemporanea emergenti del XXI secolo a maestri del XX secolo> 2018).
At <XXXVI Premio Firenze> Florence 2018 (Finalist)
At Palazzo Bastogi in Florence in 2019
At <International Art Award “Ligures – città di Lerici> Lerici 2019 (Special award)
At the exhibition <Art made in Italy> Conference Hall - Istituto Italiano di cultura per i Paesi Bassi, Amsterdam 2019
2019
oil on canvas – 120 x 80 cm
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2020
oil on canvas – 100 x 100
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2020
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2020
oil on canvas – 100 x 100
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2019
oil on canvas - 50 x 150 cm
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2019
oil on canvas - 100 x 150 cm
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This work was exhibited:
At the exhibition <Arte come testimonianza: uno sguardo sui primi venti anni del III millennio> Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence 2019
2019
oil on canvas 100 x 150 cm
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This work was exhibited:
At the exhibition <Arte come testimonianza: uno sguardo sui primi venti anni del III millennio> Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence 2019
2019
oil pon canvas - 100 x 150 cm
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This work was exhibited:
At the exhibition <Arte come testimonianza: uno sguardo sui primi venti anni del III millennio> Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence 2019
2019
oil on canvas - 100 x 150 cm
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This work was exhibited:
At the exhibition <Arte come testimonianza: uno sguardo sui primi venti anni del III millennio> Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence 2019
2019
oil on canvas - 300 x 200 cm
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This work was exhibited:
At the exhibition <Arte come testimonianza: uno sguardo sui primi venti anni del III millennio> Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence 2019
2019
oil on canvas - 100 x 120 cm
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This work was exhibited:
At <International Art Award Michelangelo Buonarroti> Sarzana 2019 (Special nomination)
At <XXXVII Premio Firenze> Florence 2019 (Finalist)
2020
oil on canvas - 80 x 80 cm
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2019
oil on canvas - 50 x 150 cm
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2020
oil on canvas - 35 x 45 cm
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2018
oil on canvas - 80 x 80 cm
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2019
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2021 - oil on canvas cm 120 x 80
private collection - Folrence (italy)
2020
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2020
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2020
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private collection - florence (italy)
2019
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private collection
2020
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2020
oil canvas - 30 x 60 cm
private collection - bologna (italy)
2020
oil on canvas - 40 x 80 cm
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2020
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2020
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The work is a finalist at the Biancoscuro Art Contest Winter edition 2021.
It is present at the Biancoscuro Virtual Art Gallery - [https://artcontest.biancoscuro.it]
2020
oil on canvas - 30 x 60 cm
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2020
oil on canvas - 50 x 65 cm
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2020
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2020
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oil con canvas 2022
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I have spent much of my artistic life depicting the village of man, its memories and hidden meanings among the houses, among the colors, lights, shadows, patinas of antiquity, and silences.
I started from the Village, the man's "place" par excellence, a tangible result of his work, a living and current testimony to his history and past.
The village reduced to a few significant traces, a few signs on the ground, ruins of houses and roads that survive time and human presence, but capable of stimulating the desire for an impractical return to the past: the "memory villages."
Then villages that no longer exist, where houses are gone, roads are gone, only immense chasms and large empty windows for immense tenements reduced to rubble by devastating human will.
Then immense "non-villages," exterminated refugee camps of people fleeing famine, arid and inhospitable lands, war and destruction, fleeing the night of mind and reason, villages "without memory".
Finally, I return to the village from which I started by chasing the thin space-time path that led me to where the memory of the past has dissolved or does not exist, where the village of man is no longer history and memory .
It will not be easy to be accepted, again share common feelings, dialogue with everyday life.
For now, everything is silent.
2022
Oil on Canvas 100 x 100
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this work was exhibited at
Contemporary Art Exhibition - Arbon Castle - Switzerland
2022
oil on canvas 65 x 140
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2022
oil on canvas 35 x 45
Private collection - Seva del Camp - Catalunya
2022
oil on canvas 30 x 30
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2022
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2022
oil on canvas 30 x 90
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2022
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this work was exhibited at:
“Premio Internazionale M.Buonarroti” - finalist - Seravezza (LU) 2022 nov.
“Garda See Art” group exhibition at Forte Alto di Nago (TN)
2023 - may - june
“Premio Firenze - XL edition 2024” - finalist - Florence
2023 - december
2023
oil on canvas
cm 40 x 80
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this work was exhibited at:
“Garda See Art” group exhibition at Forte Alto di Nago (TN)
2023 - may - june
2022
oil on canvas cm 80 x 80
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2023
oil on canvas cm 40 x 40
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2023
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PRIVATE COLLECTION
2023
oil on canvas cm 20 x 30
PRIVATE COLLECTION
2023
oil on canvas cm 20 x 20
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2023
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“Ben sai come nell’aere si raccoglie
quell’umido vapor che in acqua riede
tosto che sale dove il freddo il coglie”
Dante Alighieri “Divina Commedia – Purgatorio canto V”
In the 5th canto of the Purgatorio, the ghost of Buonconte da Montefeltro is invoked; the body of the warrior, who died in the battle of Campaldino on 11 June 1289, was swept downstream by the waters of the Archeano stream during a violent storm and was never found.
The storm was unleashed by evil spirits to take revenge for the merciful act of the Lord's good angel, who carried Buonconte, who was repentant at the point of death, and saved him from hell
<Quell’umido vapor che in acqua riede >, the water vapor that gathers in the air and falls back in the form of rain and storm, is for Dante an act of will on the part of the spirit of evil that rules over nature and its elements.
A gesture of human mercy lifts the body of a man killed during a conflict to give him a proper burial: it is an act of piety that Michelangelo symbolically recalls in one of his most famous works (the Pieta), in which Nicodemus, accompanied by Mary and Magdalene, removes the body of Christ from the cross.
The work places the Pieta in the center of the scene, with reference to the body of Buonconte da Montefeltro (lifted by the good angel of the Lord) and the bodies of all the victims of armed conflicts, a symbol of human mercy beyond any reason for war and conflict among men, loudly proclaiming the hatred of war and what it brings.
2023
liberamente ispirato da La Pietà Di Michelangelo B.
graphite e mixed media on canvas
cm 100 × 80
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2021
oil on canvas - 100 X 700
this work was exhibited
at “FREEVILLAGES” solo exhibit in Pietrasanta 2021
“Chianciano Biennale 2022”
Group exhiubit at “New Art Garden” in Pietrasanta 2024
2021
oil on canvas - 100 x 100 cm
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the gate: dark forest of concrete, contemporary, extinguished, abandoned ruins panting sound of footsteps escape
2021
oil on canvas - 100 x 100 cm
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Acherons: the turbid and muddy water, swirls among the rubble, overflows from the banks: the present of pain accompanies us in history.
2021
oil on canvas - 100 x 100 cm
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Styx: streams of water, dense haze, stagnant marsh water, thousands and thousands prisoners in endless villages without memory;
2021
oil on canvas - 100 x 100 cm
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The city of Dite:through the village, empty houses, labyrinth of past ruins, last fires and scattered ashes: while the fire contaminates the water of the river and sets it on fire.
2021
oil on canvas - 100 x 100 cm
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Phlegethon: The river of fire spreads in the plain; fast lava currents impact with violence with seawater: go further with obstinacy.
2021
oil on canvas - 100 x 100 cm
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The mad fligh: in the open sea without helmsman: tongues of fire coagulate in the cold ocean, the slow progress impacts with ice crystals and frozen expanses ever more compact.
2021
oil on canvas - 100 x 100 cm
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Cocito: everything comes together in the final icy circle, the motion subsides, the bottom of the sea is just a step away, absolute zero, memory off in the ocean water; someone will be saved.
oil on canvas
2024
cm 100 x 100
The Star Gate opens. The Stars gate closes.
Take flight now!
The depths of the sky are only a step away.
2023
liberamente ispirato da “La Pietà” di Michelangelo B.
mixed media on canvas
cm 100 x 80
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this work was exhibited at:
CONCORSO PREMIO D'ARTE “Campaldino 1289 / Poppi 2023”
2023 - june
Ben sai come nell’aere si raccoglie
quell’umido vapor che in acqua riede
tosto che sale dove il freddo il coglie”
Sai bene come nell’aria si raccoglie
il vapore umido che ricade in pioggia
nel momento in cui, salendo, si raffredda.
Dante Alighieri “Commedia – Purgatorio canto V – v.109 - 111
This is the central episode of Canto V of Purgatory in which the spirit of Buonconte da Montefeltro, the condottiere who commanded the Ghibelline troops of Arezzo against the Florentines in the historic Battle of Campaldino on June 11, 1289, near Poppi (Arezzo) is evoked.
In the bloody battle, lost by the Aretines, the leader was killed and his body never found: Dante offers his own fictionalized version of this, narrated in the first person by Buonconte himself, who died on the banks of the Archeano stream at the foot of Pratomagno after being mortally wounded in the throat.
A violent rain unleashed at the end of the day after a gloomy darkening of clouds, swollen the torrent to such an extent that its waters in flowing into the Arno dragged Buonconte's body with it, subtracting it from the subsequent search.
The storm was unleashed by evil spirits to take revenge for the act of mercy of the Lord's good angel who at Buonconte's final repentance (he pronounces the Hail Mary at the point of death), takes him with him, saving him from hell.
The water vapor that collects in the air and falls in the form of rain is thus an act of the will of the Spirit of Evil that commands over nature and its elements:
behind the apparent randomness of a meteorological episode (a heavy rain) Dante posits a diabolical will capable of moving things at its discretion and determining their fate.
Against the backdrop of the obvious and tangible consequences of a conflict - an all-human event - a gesture of human piety lifts the body of a slain man to give him a proper burial: it is an act of piety symbolically recalled to Michelangelo in one of his most famous sculptural works (the Pieta exactly) in which the body Christ laid down from the cross is lifted up by Nicodemus and two angels.
It is with reference to the body of Buonconte da Montefeltro (lifted up by the Good Angel of the Lord) and the bodies of all victims of armed conflicts that this work places and sets the sculptural complex of the Pieta, elevating the gesture represented in it to a symbol of human piety beyond any reason for war and conflict among men, loudly shouting hatred for war and what it entails.
2023
liberamente ispirato da “La Pietà” di Michelangelo B.
mixed media on canvas
cm 100 x 80
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this work was exhibited at:
CONCORSO PREMIO D'ARTE “Campaldino 1289 / Poppi 2023”
2023 - june
2023
liberamente ispirato da “La Pietà” di Michelangelo B.
mixed media on canvas
cm 100 x 80
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this work was exhibited at:
CONCORSO PREMIO D'ARTE “Campaldino 1289 / Poppi 2023”
2023 - june
2023
liberamente ispirato da “La Pietà” di Michelangelo B.
mixed media on canvas
cm 100 x 80
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this work was exhibited at:
CONCORSO PREMIO D'ARTE “Campaldino 1289 / Poppi 2023”
2023 - june
2023
liberamente ispirato da “La Pietà” di Michelangelo B.
mixed media on canvas
cm 100 x 80
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this work was exhibited at:
CONCORSO PREMIO D'ARTE “Campaldino 1289 / Poppi 2023”
2023 - june
2020
oil on canvas - 100 x 150 cm
private collection
2020
oil on canvas - cm 150x50
private collection
2021
oil on canvas 50 x 50 cm
2020 -
oil on canvas - cm 70 X 70
2020
oil on canvas cm 50 X 50
Away from Hell! MANKIND FIRST!
2021 oil on canvas
polyptych 120 x 120 cm
Boundary:
"a line formed naturally or artificially to delimit the extent of a territory, property or state"
Through a border it is difficult to pass
Across a border there is often happiness
The border is often the cause of conflict and war
Behind a border you can die
Along a border you can fight a hard battle
On the border dreams and hopes go out
Above in boundary break ideas and passions
Over the border often a different language is spoken
Over the border often the color of the skin is different
Crossing a border is often a big risk
Crossing a border can mean war, but
Crossing a border can mean knowing
Beyond a border is (often) the promised land
Beyond a border one is often a foreigner
To create a border is to create foreigners
To create a border is to divide
To eliminate a border is to unite
To eliminate many borders is to unite peoples
To eliminate all borders is utopia
To eliminate borders is to eliminate wars
Beyond the border I see light
Light beyond the border
No more borders!
2023
oil on canvas
cm 120 × 100
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this work won the
“Premio Città di Montecosaro 2024.
and the
Fiorino d’Argento at XLI Premio Firenze 2024
2023
oil on canvas
cm 120 × 100
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2023
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2023
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2023
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2023
oil and mixed media composition on double canvas
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2023
oil and mixed media composition on double canvas
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2023
oil and mixed media composition on double canvas
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2023
oil and mixed media composition on double canvas
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2023
oil and mixed media composition on double canvas
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2025
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2024
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2024
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2024
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2021
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2023
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I think of a "Symphony" as an "interval of perfect consonance" as opposed to a "dissonance", i.e. a "musical composition for orchestra in three or four movements" and generally a "harmonious concert of voices and sounds" (1) or a "harmonically structured complex of homogeneous elements such as colours and lines" (2).
Antonin Dvorak composed his "Symphony from the New World" more than a century ago to celebrate the newness and vitality of America, the New World in which he lived, with a harmonic composition that drew on the musical traditions of that country and harmonised the Central European symphonic traditions of the time.
Let us celebrate the essence and actuality of the New World as the "near future" with a "Symphony" whose harmonic composition makes use of violent rhythmic percussion, rapid acoustic forays, high-pitched and shrill sounds interspersed with flashes and images of strong sensory impact; and again, dry sonic whips, dull roars of thunder, incessant rhythmic sharp crackling, repeated and continuous crumbling of structures, smashing of fire, majestic columns of dust and smoke: A chorus of human screams and shrieks fades into the distance in the finale of the "Symphony. "
Finally, at the end of the last movement, we catch the static image of a majestic, empty urban setting, where the echo of music and sounds, soft and muffled, resounds in a labyrinth of large empty windows, of chasms between immense blocks of flats, of dust still hanging in the air, of reflections of fires not yet extinguished.
It is the overture to the New World: lights, images, sounds of an unhappy 'Symphony' offered to the memory and sensibility of the few who survive: only and exclusively them.
2025
oil on canvas
100 × 100
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Corbera d'Ebre is the martyr city where the last battle of the Ebro took place between Franco's armies and the men of the Republican army.
2024
Oil on canvas
cm 100 × 400
2024
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cm 100 × 100
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2024
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2024
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2024
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2024
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2024
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2024
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2024
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2024
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INTATTA LUNA, TALE E’ LO STATO MORTALE,
Ma tu mortal non sei,
e forse del mio dir poco ti cale.
Pur tu, solinga, eterna, peregrina,
che si pensosa sei, tu forse intendi,
questo viver terreno,
il patir nostro, il sospirar che sia;
che sia questo morir, questo supremo
scolorar del sembiante,
e perir della terra e venir meno
ad ogni usata, amante compagnia.
Giacomo Leopardi
“Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell’Asia”
2022 - oil on canvas
cm 100 x 100
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REQUIESCANT IN PACE
Quivi perdei la vista, e la parola;
nel nome di Maria finì e quivi
caddi, e rimase la mia carne sola.
Dante Alighieri “Divina Commedia - Purgatorio, Canto VI “
The works of this page were created on the occasion of the wedding of Ginesta and Michele - La Selva del Camp - Reus (Catalunia) July 1st, 2023.
they are from private collections.
2023
polypthiyc cm 100 x 150 - oil on 100 canvas panels cm 10 x 15
private collection
2023
oil on canvas
cm 30 x 60
private collection
