The Expositiva Art Prize—organized by EXPOSITIVA APS—was created from the desire to promote contemporary art as a tool for renewal, capable of generating new ideas and inspiration.
Artists, free from thematic constraints, can express themselves through elements, images, concepts, and materials that represent individual thought, their world, and their unique and subjective artistic sensibility.
The Prize is hosted at Castello Isimbardi in Castello d’Agogna (PV), dating back to the 13th century: a prestigious venue that offers an important showcase for emerging and creative artists.
The artworks exhibited within the spaces of Castello Isimbardi are set in a place rich in centuries of history, where each one engages in dialogue with memory and the past.
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Dates: from March 7–15, 2026, with the opening on Saturday, March 7 at 5:00 PM
On this occasion I will take part in the group exhibition “Forme d’Arte – Sculpture & Painting”, hosted at the Sala del San Leone in the heart of Pietrasanta. The exhibition brings different artistic languages into dialogue— from sculpture to painting—united by the desire to portray contemporary life through material, light, and each artist’s personal sensitivity.
Pietrasanta has long been a symbolic place for art: a crossroads of marble, foundries, artisan workshops and galleries, it has welcomed and inspired generations of artists, building over time an international reputation as an open-air creative laboratory. The initiative is organized by Promo-Terr and is held under the patronage of the Municipality of Pietrasanta. I will present four oil-on-canvas works: “Dopo la notte, il lavoro non è ancora finito” (2024), “I guerrieri della luce” (2024), “Il Nonno e il Nipotino” (2025) and “Rifrazione” (2025).
TALK AND DEBATE: ETHICAL USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PAINTING
On January 24th at 5:00 PM, at the exhibition venue and in agreement with the organizers, I have scheduled a talk and a closing debate on this topic.
The goal is to demonstrate how AI can enter the painting process without distorting authorship and what rules to adopt out of respect for the public, colleagues, and the market.
In some of my works, I have used AI to generate a basis for study or to explore compositional solutions before painting; painting is all about execution, correction, material, and choice.
During my talk, I will refer to the painting on display, “Grandfather and Grandson.” This painting was born from a dream I was half asleep. The image was surprisingly clear: not a vague idea, but a precise scene, with a certain light and a certain gesture. I described that vision in detail and used artificial intelligence as a support tool during the study phase: to explore some variations of composition and atmosphere, not to “paint the painting for me.” The painting itself was then an entirely manual process: color choices, corrections, material, and above all the attempt to preserve the original emotion of the dream. For me, the ethical use lies here: AI as a rapid laboratory to test possibilities, while maintaining transparency and accountability for the final work.
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Dates: From January 10 to February 4, 2026, daily from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm (closed on Mondays), with the opening on Saturday, January 10 at 4:30 pm.
During the evening of Saturday, 24 January, Promo-Terr organized a brief talk by GianPaolo Macario on “The ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in painting.” During the session, around ten artists discussed and exchanged views on this topic, which is expected to have a significant impact on the profession in the coming years.
There is an ancient word, desiderium, which in Latin denotes the aching absence of something loved and far away. Yet within that word also lives a gaze turned skyward, searching for missing stars, for possibilities still unseen. DESIDERIUM is an exhibition that explores desire as a creative force, as an impulse toward what is not there—or not there yet. The works selected will chart emotional maps: they will press toward an inner elsewhere, oscillating between nostalgia and visionary tension. Painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance—the admitted art forms—become instruments for probing absence, but also for evoking new bearings. The missing stars become symbols of what our time lacks: meaning, care, beauty. Desire as memory, as vision, as the language of the body, of matter, of light. From it emerge works that offer no answers, but questions: intimate, vertiginous, necessary. “Desiderium” is thus a constellation of fertile absences, an exhibition space that becomes an interstice between the real and the hypothetical. An invitation to desire without measure. And never to stop searching the sky.
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Date: January 31st to February 7th, 2026, with inauguration on Saturday, January 31st at 6:00 PM
Walking through Murano, you feel as though you are crossing a strip of land gently reclaimed from the sea – a slender thread holding together houses, bridges, and silences. The canal flows slowly like a thought, green and deep, carrying within it the reflection of everything: the full blue of the sky, the pastel façades, the dark windows that guard their stories. Every color seems to rise from the water and return to it, as if the light had been poured by hand, with the same care with which master glassmakers shape fire in their workshops.
Murano is a living mirror: what seems fragile here is also what speaks most powerfully. Glass – transparent, delicate, daring – becomes the emblem of a creativity that has traveled the world and given this country an international voice. Yet beauty, if not protected, can fade: and the community is called to safeguard this light, so that it will not be lost to time.
TITLE:
Wide Angle on an Ancient Art
SUPPORT:
Cotton canvas on frame
SIZE:
80 x 60 cm
TECHNIQUE:
Oil on canvas
DATE:
Aug 2025
SERIAL N.:
20250802
NOTES:
Subject taken from a photograph, executed solely with a palette knife
is the new collective exhibition bringing colour and contemporary visions to the historic Libreria Bocca in Milan, under the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the city’s “drawing room” just a few steps from the Duomo. Founded in 1775 and recognised as one of the oldest and most prestigious bookshops in Italy, Bocca is a Historic Shop, a Historic Venue of the Lombardy Region and a “Place of the Heart” of the FAI, a reference point for lovers of books, art and culture.(Il Giorno)
The exhibition, curated by Simona Heart, will feature a dialogue between the works of several artists in a unique space, where floor-to-ceiling shelves and traces of publishing history become the backdrop to contemporary painting.
Among the works on display will be the painting by GianPaolo Macario, Come un fremito felino, selected and published in the Agenda degli Artisti, which invites visitors to dwell on a vibrant instant of feline energy and sensitivity in the beating heart of Milan.
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Date: January 11-24, 2026, with opening on Sunday, January 11, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Thus, Refraction becomes the silent tale of a paradox: a single fragment of imperfect glass is enough for an age-old city to appear new, for the everyday to be tinged with unreality, for a physical law to turn into visual poetry. In that encounter between light, matter and memory, the viewer is not merely looking at a landscape: they lean out over a dream that never quite comes into full focus, and it is precisely for this reason that it continues to enchant.
TITLE:
Refraction
SUPPORT:
Cotton canvas on frame
SIZE:
90 x 60 cm
TECHNIQUE:
Oil on canvas
DATE:
Nov 2025
SERIAL N.:
20251101
NOTES:
Subject taken from a photograph, made solely with a spatula
Rooted in 1940, the Atlas of Contemporary Art is the longest-running Italian art yearbook and a touchstone for scholars, gallerists, and collectors.
Recognized by the Senate of the Republic as an “instrument for promoting Italian culture worldwide,” it has cemented a historic role in mapping modern and contemporary art.
Unique in its kind, it is featured at major international events: MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), Art Basel Miami, the Frankfurt Book Fair (Giunti stand), and the Venice Biennale (Book Pavilion at the Giardini).
The next edition, in 2026—curated by Stefania Pieralice (Volume Curator) and Gianni Dunil (Editor-in-Chief)—will be presented at MoMA by renowned art critic Daniele Radini Tedeschi, further strengthening dialogue with global institutions. Published and distributed by Giunti, the Atlas of Contemporary Art reaches readers and industry professionals extensively.
I saw it — it was there! Alive in my friend’s photograph — a burst of magenta red, with tiny real flowers at the center of the luminous bracts. A few green leaves, oval, sometimes slightly pointed; woody and thorny branches, perfect for climbing the sun-warmed plaster wall. This image was taken on August 11, 2023, on the Greek island of Patmos by my friend Cesare Rotondo, a Milanese manager, photographer, and jazz musician of rare talent.
TITLE:
Bougainvillea
SUPPORT:
Cotton canvas on frame
SIZE:
50 x 60 cm
TECHNIQUE:
Oil on canvas
DATE:
July 2025
SERIAL N.:
20250701
NOTES:
Subject taken from one photographs, created solely with a spatula
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..
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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.
