“I am interested in creating formal and conceptual tensions; faces which in

appearance seem gentle and pure can hide a soul embodying the exact

opposite. The final result is that the represented characters seem to be a little

like aliens yet want to reflect  their very own formal codes and who only in

appearance are like human beings. The face becomes a map which if

deconstructed can make us understand the origin of emotions, starting for

example from the formal study of the eye, or from the relationship between the

cheek and the mouth. The technique of painting has a sense in a context, open

to a philosophical conceptual reflection on Man and the world. In this context,

the very act of painting and of drawing itself can be seen as a method of

acknowledging reality, filtered by the mind and by the ‘stomach’. Maybe, this is

the most simple and direct way yet the one most prone to misunderstandings.”