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The last years of work are characterized by research, also with reflective moments and propulsion stimulus designed to create an art project that connotes a more new language. The series of Chironi (centauromachía), which characterized the activity from 1999 onwards, has come to an end: there was nothing more referential with the contemporary historical period, was devoid of sediment innovative. The circumstances demanded something captivating, disturbing.

Observing the international art scene came signs of artistic vitality in ferment: the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery in London e exulting new artistic languages Anglo-Saxon; operations research Factory and / or Factory Benetton, the advertising of taste Sisley of trash, and the consecration of photography and digital imaging at the Venice Biennale, the phenomenon Cattelan, manager of shock and amazement, Jeff Koons and a return to childhood dell'Arte, the pure, chaste, all examples that are think of the regeneration of thought and survival of aesthetic taste.

These points of view, added to research staff, characterizing the return to manual, towards the painting, mass media icons; leads me the awareness that art is a state of mind, fed by custom and social culture. "The phenomenon of Pop Art has raised the art to an object of consumption, dated the consecration of the goods now, at a distance of years, art exhibition, after the collective psychodrama, the same attitudes of the public" (see "The transparency of evil "by Baudrillard).
The artistic commercial transaction, which is now similar to that of the great fashion designers, advocates a style that becomes social behaviour to make imperishable a trend. Recent work show, in my opinion, an emotional terminal astonishing, however incisive of an intensity similar to the huge advertising. Here is some example.

THE CURE #1/99

The theme on "pharmacology" intends to propose a simple pictorial language, reference panel painting of modest proportions, prerogative typical of medieval cultural heritage and the contemporary relativism, however rich in its references diachronic of Art History, some examples: the reference citations aesthetic of the work of Morandi and neoplasticism seen in key Pop (metaphysical striking and curious);
recovery techniques paintings that show the work to a dimension detached from the frenzy contemporary; the perception of a compositional cut its presentation of plastic or architectural designs; the cultural moment pharmacy of Damien Hirst, auctioned at Sotheby's, developed on the poetic performative; the strategy of market identification for collectors consisting of independent professionals, doctors, lawyers; the intent to exorcise metaphorically suffering, alienation, pessimism, the disease.

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