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..
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.
TITLE:
The Grandfather and the Little Grandson
SUPPORT:
Cotton canvas on frame
SIZE:
50 x 50 cm
TECHNIQUE:
Oil on canvas
DATE:
January 2025
SERIAL N.:
20250101
NOTES:
A fantasy subject, painted with a brush.
AI used exclusively for preliminary studies; final work is handcrafted. When I use AI, I treat it like a sketching lab. For example, here I gave a precise brief—subject, lighting, materials, even a lens effect—and then corrected the output with specific indications (wind direction, shape of the peak). AI doesn’t decide: it speeds up the study phase. The ethics lie in two things: not opaquely copying other people’s material and honestly declaring that it is a design tool, while the final work (and the artistic choices) remain mine.
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
