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  • The suspended quiet of Valletta

    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

  • Barcelona Art Exibition

    Barcelona – Gallery C6

    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

    Exhibition curator: Eleni Eirini Xenaki

    Below you can consult the catalog:

    RoiMoving Art Barcelona 2025 – Pagine CatalogoDownload

  • Hymn to the Simple Life

    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

    TITLE:   

    Hymn to the Simple Life

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    30 x 50 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    June 2025

    SERIAL N.:

    20250601

    NOTES:

    Fantasy subject, made entirely with a spatula

  • The Missing Point

    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.

    And the painting falls silent, but it tells all.

    TITLE:   

    The Missing Point

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    90 x 60 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    May 2025

    SERIAL N.:

    20250501

    NOTES:

    Fictional subject, entirely made with a spatula

  • Time has made them accomplices and stronger

    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

  • Curves of Vine and Vespa

    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.

    TITLE:   

    Curves of Vine and Vespa

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 70 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    April 2025

    SERIAL N.:

    20250401

    NOTES:

    Fantasy subject, made entirely with a spatula

  • PERSEFONE – InCANTO DI PRIMAVERA

    PERSEPHONE – InCANTO DI PRIMAVERA

    Visual arts exhibition that celebrates the awakening of spring through multiple contemporary artistic languages.
    The exhibition, which will be held at the prestigious Galleria degli Artisti in Via Nirone 1 in Milan, takes inspiration from the mythological figure of Persephone, whose ascent from the underworld marks the beginning of spring in the Greek pantheon. According to the myth, when Persephone returns to earth on the occasion of the spring equinox, her mother Demeter, goddess of agriculture, adorns nature with flowers, buds on the trees, dyeing the meadows green and the sky blue.
    This mythological theme becomes a metaphor for a double awakening: the external one of nature and the internal one of the human being. The selected artists are invited to explore this concept of rebirth and transformation, interpreting through their works the moment in which the renewed energies of spring manifest themselves both in the natural world and in the human soul. As evoked in the verses of Pablo Neruda quoted in the project: “It is that behind things there is you, Spring, who begins to write in the humidity, with the fingers of a playful child, the delirious alphabet of time that returns.” The exhibition is proposed as an opportunity for artists and visitors to undertake a path of reconnection with their own creative essence and with their “heart projects”, drawing on the inner resources that the spring season naturally awakens.

    Event information

    Period: From 21 to 29 March 2025, with inauguration on Friday 21 March at 18:00

    Where: Galleria degli Artisti, Via Nirone 1, Milan

    Below you can consult the catalog:

    I had the immense pleasure of participating in this event together with my Art Teacher, the Painter Massimo Fontanini who brought a splendid work entitled “Rinascita”

    Catalogo WEB PERSEFONE_compressedDownload

  • Golden wheat dances in the wind

    it’s still May, and the light dazzles me.
    The sky is blue, and a breeze rises,
    the wind whispers softly to me:
    a memory of red poppies, of cornflowers, and
    daisies with white petals,
    repeated pleas of love.

    TITLE:   

    Golden wheat dances in the wind

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 50 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    February 2025

    SERIAL N.:

    20250201

    NOTES:

    Fantasy subject, created with a brush

  • The beach bores me

    The beach bores me. When I’m there, I feel bored.

    If it weren’t for Enzo, who allowed me to set up my easel and paint, I would have no choice but to sleep on the deck chair. The Apuan Alps watch over me from above, while in front of me, the beach stretches out before a shimmering sea that fades into the horizon.

    My daughter-in-law posed as a model, and my son, as a photographer, captured this scene, which I then transferred onto the canvas.

    TITLE:   

    The beach bores me

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 60 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    August 2024

    SERIAL N.:

    20240802

    NOTES:

    Entirely created with a palette knife, except for the face

  • Scenari d’Artista. Non solo pittura e scultura – Lucca 2025

    Artist Scenarios‘Artist Scenarios’ with the PromoTerr association at the church of Santa Caterina

    From February 15th to March 8th in Lucca, in the church of Santa Caterina, there will be Artist Scenarios, a dynamic and interactive exhibition where the public can find, in addition to the works on display, various cultural and entertainment events.

    In painting we find varied styles, from meticulous to material landscapes, from pure abstraction to retouched photos, from conceptual to portraits, from small to large canvases… an almost complete overview of contemporary art.

    Then we have sculptures, here the overview is less extensive but representative, we have the art of driftwood, that is, the recovery of wood carried to the shore by sea and river currents, with which the artist creates animals and objects, alongside dynamic statuary marble sculptures, ceramic works and works in aluminum leaf and wooden sculpture-paintings. We close with paper cutting, a modern term that comes from far away, it is in fact a very ancient oriental technique, a new trend in paper recycling.

    Once the artistic presentation is closed, we will see the dynamics and initiatives that Scenari d’Artista offers us, which presents itself as a dynamic and interactive exhibition that becomes, on weekends, a cultural space, which offers meetings and book presentations, particular attention has been paid to the closing day, March 8, Women’s Day, where two meetings are scheduled in addition to performances by the artists present.

    Event information

    Period: From February 15 to March 8, 2025, with inauguration on Saturday February 15 at 4:30 pm

    Where: Church of Santa Caterina – Via del Crocifisso 1, Lucca

    Event program

    Below you can consult the catalog.

    scenarilibromacarioDownload
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