Art is made, not proclaimed!

03/01/2013

Hypocrisy

I never estimate clean or polished forms,
as well as pure colours and clean outlines.
Please tell me what is clean, polished and clear.
I would like to be fit to perceive in such a way,
alas, this perception is not corresponding to reality.

01/01/2013

Seeing through the nose,
Breathing through the eyes,
Moulding through the ears,
Feeling through the hands.
That is Art.
Questo è arte.

01/01/2013

It is about time to investigate beyond the darkness of what has been overshadowed
and to hunt for the unknown.
The help deriving from science is inadequate because the art, which is situated in our mind, is not subjected to laws and formula governing the science.

21/12/2012

Looking forword

Any mutation entails variations, therefore mutation is art.
Thus, to be beyond his own skill, the artist must constantly look for variations.

20/12/2012

The art of painting is the simplest and most complex existing activity.
Actually painting means removing colours and forms which in time were worn out, corrupted, soiled and superposed.
What has to be paint?
Human beings, naturally.

Oxide

Oxide will never stop…
Many look at it but few can perceive it.

2011

Purifications

Forms, colours, figures
Which I imagined elsewhere…
Were underneath,
Inside,
And I freed them.

 

2011

Figures

I long for figures
to shun my loneliness.

2011

Shape

Shape can be both
bidimensional and tridimensional.
Shape is optimal when possessing both dimensions
and perfect with the fourth one, olfaction.

22/06/2010

To scrape

Scraping does not mean removing,
It means going underneath,
Cleaning up by extirpation,
Pushing, lifting up,
Curling up the material,
like the work done by a plough into earth.

01/03/2010

About snow

It is the challenge of a white canvas ….
on which few strokes can create a world in its fullness.
Snow is like a black starry night:
immeasurable.

20/12/2009

Removing

Cleaning,
removing,
searching,
discovering
do not mean cancelling rather creating new things and shapes
which existed unnoticed.

10/06/2009

Wind

Painting wind is exciting
because wind is unforeseeable,
it is life,
movement,
noise,
light and long shadows.
An endless dynamism.

11/02/2009

Flowers

I was convinced
that painting flowers
was the most difficult thing to do,
yet I did not realise
that flowers
must exhale their fragrance.

06/01/2009

Art and science

Art is not science
but research employing science
for a better way of life.
Unfortunately not everyone understand art
as it usually is out of reach.

20/10/2007

Modern painting

It is hard to fix a boundary
between picture and sculpture.
Creating and removing
would be more appropriate.

10/12/2006

To Marco

Life is a pubis,
a warm nest
made of straw and mud.
Life is difficult and hard,
beautiful and fanciful
whenever we have mud, straw and light.

10/12/2006

Don’t

Don’t finish,
Don’t close
Don’t conclude
Don’t complete
Don’t identify
Don’t means do not.

Selvaggio, 06/01/2003

In nature all is figurative and abstract.
Being able to penetrate into forms, that’s the problem.

10/09/2000

Let me tell you

Let me tell you about stinky things:…
Which can annoy,
Which have long lives.
Let me tell you that it is too much
And it is wrong.
Than it is better to be dumb.
I wanted to let you know…

Wind

The colour of wind must be found out thus
forms and colours will ensue from it.

03/04/1999

An exhibition

The exhibition starts at the very moment in which the artist feels he has something to show.

01/03/1998

The work

The work of art dies out as soon as the artist has created it. It will be revived by spectators.

01/03/1998

I could not tell you wonderful things.
I would not be able to offer you shiny things.
If only could I think differently!
I was thinking in and outside
And kept on being over there.

17/02/1993

Unstable sculpture

I wonder why the shape of sculpture
cannot be spontaneously forged
as it happens in nature
where mutation is constantly and patiently happening.
Even that is art.

01/06/1990

Any work is consequent to another, if not in real terms, mentally.
A work of art will be successful if you have a feeling with it and develops evermore suggesting new ideas even modifying the starting concept.

17/12/1986

When knowing and performing a work of art the artist is already bypassing it.

12/09/1986

Nature is employed and dealt out by man but is revealed by the artist who betrays it up to its extreme limit.

08/09/1986

Art is limitless space divided into apparent areas coveted one after the other by the artist. As soon as a conquest is acquired other areas appear creating an endless operating action.

01/05/1986

I do not live in a dream, I move with the times.

03/03/1986

Tar is natural element thus it forestalls the time of my work.

18/02/1985

The conception precedes the work which is previously perceived by thought therefore by techniques.

04/02/1985

Tar “stinks” for un-witty people,
Art si meant for fee people only (unfortunately).
Art speeds along, runs forward,
there is no time for latecomers.
Art keeps us with the times.

27/11/1984

Any work of mine is fragile, delicate, unstable and dangerous, that is what I want.
In my art the material is frail representing the synthesis of elements. The value of a work is proportioned to its inspiring thought rather than to the material which is made out of.

13/11/1984

A part of history cannot be avoided from the artistic work otherwise it would be similar to a rootless tree.

12/11/1984

I have warm, tingling and smooth hands, my mind is free and satisfied.
I just ended an inward and outward work on abrasive paper, it is neither a painting work nor a carving one.
Through my work I exercise a penetrating and altering material’s process, neither eclectic nor equivocal, because I am always conscious of the result of my work. Those who think that my work is eclectic or equivocal do not understand my art because they do not know it.
So long.

11/11/1984

Tar is a helping mean: a tool like oil painting, wood, gold, ashes,,,,
Black scented tar represents the itinerary to be followed and the atmosphere which is inhaled.
I am absorbed, altered and modified by tar which makes me old as it ages my works: tar is challenging me and I take part.

01/03/1984