Bottega (Shop)

The studio where I worked was in fact the butcher shop of my paternal grandfather and then of my father and that place had seen and hosted countless dismembered bodies, reduced to shreds and thus preventing any reconstruction of the body image. The experience of those places had transferred to me an abstract idea of the concept of the body.

I wanted to create pictorial-plastic bodies that would allow me to overcome the pure confrontation with painting. I was trying to transform pictorial skin into the epidermis of a more complex body.Using shoe cream, I transformed the paper into leather protecting it from the elements. When I exhibit the work, I go over the polish on the surfaces in order to keep them soft and well cared for.