BIOGRAPHY
I was born in Sicily. The South and the Mediterranean are the roots of my soul and my essence. I come from a classical background. I should have been a doctor if I hadn’t encountered theater. In theater began my endless journey into Art. I am an actor and director, a playwright and a writer. I love to use the verb “to be,” because I have never done anything in my life that I am not. I enjoy playing with lights, a passion that led me to photography and earned me an honorable mention at the IPA in Los Angeles in 2016. In the play of lights, I discovered painting, a language that allows me countless escapes, each of which leads me back to myself.
CV
– Il Sogno di Demetra, San Babila Gallery, Milan, 2024
– Viaggio verso l’introspezione, MO.C.A. Gallery, Rome, 2024
– Corrispondenze Immateriali, Palazzo Moncada. Caltanissetta, 2023
– Piedi nudi e capelli al vento, Spazio Sintesi, Palermo, 2023
– Inside, Morando-Bolognini Castle, Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, 2023
– Milano Art&Fashion Week, Milan, 2022
– International Contemporary Art Fair, ART3F, Luxemburg, 2022
– Estatarte, Galleria ArteContesa, Rome, 2022
– International Contemporary Art Fair, ART3F, Montecarlo, 2022
– Milano Art&Design Week, Milan, 2022
– Couleurs sans Frontières, Web Event, 2022
– Mediterraneo, Palazzo Duchi di Santo Stefano, TAORMINA, 2022
I was awarded a special mention at the end of the exhibition “Corrispondenze Immateriali”, Caltanissetta, 2024.
My work “I balconi di Palazzolo” was the winner of the “Piermaria Rosso di San Secondo e Leonardo Sciascia” culture award, Caltanissetta, 2024.
STATEMENT
“I am what I don’t know.” So says a character in one of my stories. And it’s a phrase that comes from the most intimate part of myself, because my whole life, up to this point, has been a continuous search, a continuous pushing beyond my own limits. Art has certainly been the means, and I’m not referring to the technique of expression; on the contrary, it has always been secondary to exploring the deepest folds of my soul. Painting is for me like a catharsis that comes to life in the shapes and colors spread on the canvas; of shadow and light. Shadows that I try to illuminate and lights that I would like to make mine, capture. It’s the need for a space of quiet; but it continually escapes. And I realize that my painting could be summed up in a single phrase: what I don’t know.
