A rider, elegant and steady, gallops at full speed, facing with a watchful gaze the charge of a young bull. Rays of light vibrantly cut through the lush landscape, amplifying the sensation of speed and motion. Between man and nature unfolds a dialogue of strength and harmony: the bull’s instinctive energy against the controlled precision of the rider and his steed. A suspended moment, full of sunlight, color, and movement.
TITLE:
Corsa in Camargue
SUPPORT:
Cotton canvas on frame
SIZE:
50 x 50 cm
TECHNIQUE:
Oil on canvas
DATE:
August 2025
SERIAL N.:
20250801
NOTES:
From one of my photographs, created exclusively with a palette knife.
Art Exchange: America & Italy – A Cultural Bridge Between Calabria and the United States
From August 6 to 24, 2025, the elegant halls of Palazzo Gagliardi in Vibo Valentia will host the international group exhibition “Art Exchange: America & Italy”, promoted by the Carlo Rambaldi Foundation. After its successful debut in New York at the Culture Lab LIC in Long Island City, the event now arrives in Italy as a vibrant cultural exchange between two artistic worlds: Italian and American.
The initiative aims to foster a visual and creative dialogue between Calabria and the United States, bringing together Italian and American artists through diverse expressive languages united by shared values and universal perspectives. As Giuseppe Lombardi, Vice President of the cultural association Rambaldi Promotion, stated, the exhibition “highlights art as a universal language capable of transcending borders and promoting mutual understanding.”
Among the featured works are pieces ranging from tradition to innovation, showcasing a wide variety of styles, techniques, and artistic approaches. The exhibition as a whole invites visitors to reflect on the power of art as a tool for intercultural connection and as a vehicle for shared creativity..
Event Information
Date: From July 17 to August 24, 2025, with opening on Thursday, July 17 at 5:00 PM
The Calabrian press and television gave extensive coverage to the event, which was covered and described on numerous occasions, often highlighting my painting of New York.
I resume: A crouched child covers his head with both hands. He opens one eye and looks around, bewildered, at a world lashed by the wind. The grandfather hugs him, wraps him up warmly. He takes his tiny hand and whispers, “don’t worry,” before accompanying him outside on one of the very first walks of his life.
GianPaolo Macario presents “The World in an Instant”, an exhibition where the Lombard artist captures and freezes on canvas a variety of life’s images that surround him — a kaleidoscope of moments in which Macario seizes the fleeting instant of a cat, a landscape, a woman, or a memory by the sea.
The exhibition is part of the “Art Path” curated by Promo-Terr Association, offering guests a true artistic tour inside the hotel — starting from the lobby and leading visitors floor by floor to discover the works on display.
In the scorching heart of August, Valletta presents itself as a city frozen in time, carved in golden stone that challenges the gaze and heats the air. A few steps echo through its streets emptied by the sun, where the eye seeks refuge in the shade of a balcony, behind the corner of a door.
The facades, sand and honey colored, shine with bright light, but they are enlivened by the “gallariji” – wooden balconies painted in bold shades, emerald green and cobalt blue – that look out like silent observers above the pavement.
Above our heads, strings stretched between the houses hold colored paper lanterns, light as cheerful thoughts, ready for the celebration of the Assumption. Red, yellow, indigo and emerald, they dance in the breeze of the nearby sea, between shadow and sun, waiting for the evening when the city will wake up in a bright explosion of faith and joy.
In this suspended moment, my painting captures the warm breath of the city and its hidden heart, which beats slowly, waiting for the party.
TITLE:
The suspended quiet of Valletta
SUPPORT:
Cotton canvas on frame
SIZE:
65 x 80
TECHNIQUE:
Oil on canvas
DATE:
June 2025
SERIAL N.:
20250602
NOTES:
Subject taken from one of my photos and made entirely with a spatula
A major group exhibition of artists from different European countries, Gracia, Italy, Spain and France. The exhibition, organized by ROI Moving Art was more than a simple showcase: it was a dynamic platform for interaction and growth, attracting a wide range of professionals and enthusiasts from the artistic community to a venue in the historic center of Barcelona, near the Cathedral.
Event information
Period: From May 29th to June 3rd 2025, with inauguration on Thursday May 29th at 17:00
Where: Gallery C6 – Carrer de l’Hostal d’en Sol, 7, Ciutat Vella, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
A wheel of cheese, fragrant bread freshly baked from the old wood-fired oven, a glass of red wine that gathers the light of day.
And a little robin in flight, like a light thought, come to celebrate this sacred daily communion.
This was the authentic happiness that accompanied our grandparents when they returned from the fields, or after leading the animals along the paths of the mountain pastures.
A happiness made of little, yet so full.
Outside, the sky could be heavy with rain, low clouds crawled among the Alpine pastures, but inside the hut burned the flame of refuge, of quiet, of peace.
The shepherd, a simple man, did not torment himself with questions about tomorrow.
He walked in the present, with dignity, facing every unexpected event without worry.
Worry is the disease of the man of the city, who runs without rest, stumbles over his own desires and complains about every obstacle on his path towards ambition.
The shepherd does not.
He lives in silence and waiting, he ignores the deep reason for events, but he knows how to recognize the beauty of the small and sincere gifts that life offers him. In the warmth of his cabin, in the light of a sunset that dyes the wine ruby, he gives thanks – in silence, with his heart – for the bread, the cheese, and the gentle flight of a robin
In the beginning, there was the line. Infinite, unchanging, luminous. It stretched silently from past eternity into the future, with no beginning and no end — like a timeless breath. It was true life, eternal life. Upon this line, suspended beyond the tangible, men and women walked in harmony with the divine order. They moved along the upper part of the line, wrapped in serene light, in an Eden where each step was understanding, presence, peace.
But the perfection of the line concealed a secret.
Along its perfect and linear course, a point was missing. A tiny absence, almost imperceptible — a void of infinitesimal size, as a mathematician might say: something that takes up no space, and yet it is there. An opening.
And so, unaware, men and women, one by one, stumble upon that point. And fall.
They fall beneath the line.
They awaken in the earthly life — a world that appears fluid, unstable, ever-changing. Shapes shift, truth blurs, all previous reference points dissolve. Humanity forgets the line, and the light it carried. The memory of the eternal fades into the fog of the material experience.
In the earthly dimension, humans struggle. They believe this is the only life. They seek security, they build, they hoard — sometimes at the expense of others. They cry out in loss, fight in fear, and withdraw in confusion. Suffering embraces them, and time urges them on.
Yet not all surrender.
Some, even immersed in the liquid realm of earthly life, do not fully forget what they no longer know. Some love. Some care. Some help their companions to rise, to walk, to search. Some look upward, without knowing why, and move toward the light.
And then, one day, the point returns.
The missing point appears again — but now not as a fall, but as a passage. It is death, yes, but not an end. It is the breach that allows one to rise again. The slender opening connecting the lower world to the higher one. And then, if the human heart has remained open, if the soul still listens, they can ascend.
They emerge above the line once more.
And now they are not the same. They remember. They recognize. They are in tune again with the Divine, reconnected to the infinite from which they came. Life resumes its eternal flow — but this time, in fullness. The being is restored in serenity, in wholeness, in truth.
Among the silent mountains of Grigna, a white writing — LOVE — becomes sculpture and refuge. She, lying lightly on that word, smiles with her head resting on the one she has chosen every day.
Time has made them accomplices, stronger, more real. In that embrace placed on the landscape, a love is celebrated that does not fade, but is nourished by the seasons lived together, like the wind that caresses the peaks and tells eternal stories.
TITLE:
Time has made them accomplices and stronger
SUPPORT:
Cotton canvas on frame
SIZE:
70 x 50 cm
TECHNIQUE:
Oil on canvas
DATE:
February 2025
SERIAL N.:
20250201
NOTES:
Subject for photography, made entirely with a spatula
Ride the summer like a rebel queen, the girl on the Vespa crosses the rows with the wind in her hair. Her gaze, proud and light, reveals the secret of the Versilian hills, where the Pinot Noir and Chardonnay mature silently, between caresses of the sun and scents of youth.
Behind her, like a portal in the sky, Monte Forato watches over the Apuan Alps, witness of childhood walks and whispered loves.
This is a sip of timeless Tuscany, a toast to life that runs, to beauty that doesn’t ask permission, to wine that preserves memories in a bottle.
