Narrative Art Concept:
humanity’s biography
Narrative art projects are the means by which the ongoing censorship of the genuine human being can be countered. We have come to live the lives we want to tell, in a form of permanent display or performance for distracted audiences. By employing technologies such as social media and voice messages you can involve people in an intimately participatory act; forming an alternative narrative to counter what is copiously available online to date. The narrative art paintings are born from listening to said voices; they are testament and symbols to the act of being present, in which self-aware people return to shape an environment that is capable of countering stereotypes, prejudices, constant judgment and the relentless homogenisation that society increasingly demands acquiescence to. The narrative artworks are participatory, relational, collective and organic. Easy to assimilate in being engendered, not by notions, but actual lived experience that has been processed and is real, just like the people telling them: humanity’s actual biography.
#quotidianità concept: Everyday life, the daily lived is the place where one resides, where the uniqueness of each individual can be made manifest and built across encounters and relationships. Both with oneself, with others and the world, all immersed in the density of time seemingly immobile in its continuous changing. By asking people to tell me about their day, I try to imprint this common ritual on canvas: a collective everyday life in which it is possible to glimpse the face of humanity's biography.
(To this concept belong the paintings #OGGI1, #OGGI2, #OGGI3, #SOLSTIZWINTER 2020 and #SPRINGEQUINOX 2021)
#rivoluzioneterrestre concept: The earth’s revolution represents our planet’s motion around the sun. Yet, a revolution is also a radical movement potentially able to lead the development of events towards a better future. In a society steeped in performances and displays that seek constant attention, I believe a return to authentic biographical stories can represent a new #rivoluzioneterrestre. Being present in yourself enables being present in any relationship, including the one with your own conscience; the inner sun around which we gravitate every day, in order to make responsible, thoughtful and willing choices. In practice, we are the #rivoluzioneterrestre across time, and our shared and intertwined biographical accounts a powerful reflection of such.
(The current series of paintings belongs to this concept: #SOLSTIZWINTER 2020 (finished), #SPRINGEQUINOX (finished), #SOLSTIZSUMMER (to be done) and #EQUINOTIZSPRING (to be done)).