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  • Small is Better – Venezia 2024

    Small is better! = Piccolo è meglio!

    An exhibition of small format to present the liveliness, expression and beauty of art up close, even through small dimensions, dimensions that accentuate a functional opportunity for exchange, fast and dynamic, between contemporary art and its audience.

    Not a reduction that is imposed on us in the works exhibited, but rather a fullness that is revealed to us.
    An accompaniment with the minimum, the fragment, the crumb.
    And don’t think that’s little!

    Exhibition curator Gina Affinito, gallery owner Paolo Bertuzzo and Valentina Recchia, art therapy teacher at ARTEDO Venezia, School of Arts Therapies, for an emotional reading of the works entitled: “SMALL MEETINGS WITH ART THERAPY”

    Event information

    Period: From 14 to 21 December 2024, with inauguration on Saturday 14 December at 6:00 pm


    Where: Arte Spazio Tempo, Campo del Ghetto Nuovo, Cannaregio 2877, Venezia

    Below you can consult the catalog.

    Web Catalog Small is betterDownload

  • AQUAE Emozioni Fluide – Genova 2025

    AQUAE – Emozioni Fluide

    Water refers to life, in its primordial form: the first cell originated in water; amniotic fluid protects the
    child during pregnancy, binding us inextricably with this element from the first moments of our existence.
    The theme of the exhibition focuses on the element of water, with particular attention to the environment linked to the sea, to the use and
    conservation of its resources for sustainable development.
    Painting, sculpture, illustration, photography and installation are the art forms admitted to the project, on a journey to discover the
    relationship between man and water, which has always been an invaluable resource for our species.

    Information on the event

    Period: From 8 to 16 February 2025, with inauguration on Saturday 8 February at 6:00 pm


    Where : MuMa -Galata Museo del Mare di Genova

    Below you can consult the catalog.

    Aquae Emozioni Fluide CatalogDownload

  • I am the Rooster

    Let’s clarify right away: the title was decided by my Manager (i.e. my wife Luisa)!!!

    Undoubtedly, the Rooster’s gaze and his beautiful display of his feathered and colored chest, lead one to think that He is the most important in the henhouse.

    In this painting, inspired by a disrespectful cartoon published on Facebook, the subject offered stimulating and complex elements: the watchful eye, the crest and wattles, the pompous plumage. The background was completely redone at a later time, covering the signature with a glaze that appears to shine through and does not alter the final result.

    TITLE:   

    I am the Rooster

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 60 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    Dicember 2021

    SERIAL N.:

    2021201

    NOTES:

    Made with a brush

  • A dive and lots of bubbles

    I am a frog and from the shore I dive into the green pond where I was born and still live today without many worries.

    This painting has a particular charm, for the cheerfulness and lightness of the frog, a free animal, in perfect harmony with its natural habitat.

    The green of the water and the bubbles created in the dive, in contrast with the blue of the sky and the transparency of the waves and drops produced on the surface, are the perfect environment in which to play and live happily.

    TITLE:   

    A dive and lots of bubbles

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 40 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    Novembre 2021

    SERIAL N.:

    2021101

    NOTES:

    Made with a brush

  • The first oil painting

    I have to be grateful to my art teacher Massimo Fontanini, who for many Friday evenings held a course at the Atellier Crespi in Via Brera, and allowed me to know, appreciate and acquire many oil painting techniques.

    It was he who proposed the first subject to draw and paint. Two “red apples” that were the first oil painting, the first challenge in oil painting.

    The test was to represent on canvas two products of the earth of which we have a usual knowledge and of which anyone can easily evaluate the result in terms of: roundness, color, result of light and depth.

    Not everything is perfect, but the combination of details and the painting is interesting.

    TITLE:   

    The first oil painting

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 40 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    September 2021

    SERIAL N.:

    20210901

    NOTES:

    Made with a brush

  • Phalaenopsis

    For her birthday, my father-in-law Marco gave Luisa a beautiful white Orchid.

    It was August 26th and we put it on the garden table near the kitchen. Lots of light and protected from water and cold. Today, almost two months after its arrival, the plant is still there. Majestic and proud in its unchanged whiteness.

    I imagine it like this, a synthesis of all the flowers in the garden, a summary of the life and colors that surround us, lots of light and some dark shades.

    TITLE:   

    Phalaenopsis

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    60 x 100 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    October 2022

    SERIAL N.:

    20221001

    NOTES:

    Made entirely with a spatula

  • My Mother – a Jaguar

    Every cub feels safe with its mother. This security is the first force that leads it into life and “teaches” it to face the world around it.

    Behind them there is the profile of other felines lurking, ready to attack and devour it while it is still a cub. But the mother will teach it the art of defending itself and building its future. The only absolute certainty but, unfortunately, also limited in time.

    TITLE:   

    My Mother – a jaguar

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    70 x 50 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    April 2022

    SERIAL N.:

    20220402

    NOTES:

    Made with brush

    OWNER:

    Today owned by Daniela Incerti and Daniele Marconi

  • Red Tulips

    I had just started my painting course when I had the opportunity to accompany my wife to Holland. First stop was the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, an educational and seductive tour, an encouragement to study color and its effect on the perception of reality.

    Although I was enchanted by his Sunflowers, I was afraid of dealing with such an important subject, so I chose a simpler subject: a field of tulips.

    The difficulty of this painting was to represent the most distant flowers, which in the original photograph appeared blurry and poorly defined.

    TITLE:   

    Red Tulips

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 50 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    April 2022

    SERIAL N.:

    20220401

    NOTES:

    Made with brush

    OWNER:

    Today owned by Valentina and Andrea Macario

  • The White Cyclone

    In an oil painting it is always better to start with the darkest colors. Correcting a part of the painting where the white color dominates is always very difficult. This was one of the cornerstones of the school of the master Fontanini (for this reason the apples, that is the first painted subject, had a black background). However, I have always liked challenges and so be it! So I looked for a scene where a white horse runs on a snowy expanse. It seemed to me the best choice to test my limits. Too bad that in the first version I completely got the proportions of the neck wrong and therefore the final version (the one reproduced here) is the second edition of the same subject.

    TITLE:   

    The White Cyclone

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 40 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    March 2022

    SERIAL N.:

    20220301

    NOTES:

    Made with brush

  • Cousin’s Cat

    This is my wife’s cousin’s cat: Massimo. It’s a photograph of him that inspired me for the plastic pose and the color that is highlighted by the light coming from the left. The most fun part was making the leaves of the plants that could be placed on multiple levels thanks to the work of the spatula.

    Here a quick intervention by the master Fontanini gave greater roundness and depth to the segments of the fountain.

    TITLE:   

    Cousin’s Cat

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 70 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    October 2023

    SERIAL N.:

    20231002

    NOTES:

    Made entirely with a spatula. except for the basket

    OWNER:

    Today owned by Dr. Massimo Meroni

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