About Painting with Light
Coming here I had no project at all out of that of meeting with
Finland's nature. To tell the truth, I was following the clouds that
from Italy had already brought me to Germany. But I felt that I had to
go farther to North to see other spaces, other lights and water. At my
arrival I was surprised by the large quantity of greens and I felt the
need to make a sort of order to learn them all, to let them speak of the
Spirit which is dwelling here. But I could not take only the greens
forgetting all their other companions. I started so to look in deep and
to collect the colors from Nature. I started from the birch, from its
silvery white and I was surprised that I could not take it without the
golden yellow of its inner bark, nor could I divide them both from the
red of the firs growing near there.
Even if Nature is now in its gorgeous days, lots of things made me
think that this place is most of the time ruled by the whites of snow
and ice. This is why I decided to put my precious findings on a white
surface to play with white shades that might suggest me this winter
presence.
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My work tries never to be descriptive as my aim is to suggest
something which is beyond the visible and recognizable form. This is why
I chose the route of lyrical abstract expressionism since the beginning.
I am a painter and I cant renounce the physical contact with the
substance of color, but along my way I have always been fascinated by
the pureness of light. It became therefore natural to me to try to use
my camera to capture these pure colors. By this means, I continue to
paint but I use my camera as my brush and the things around me as my
color tubes. My canvas is the air in which these colors dance and
mingle. Naturalness is very important in my approach to art. My aim is to
create images that might give the impression of having always been
existed, or better that might have been grown by themselves.
I have always been strongly affected by nature. it is not only my source
of inspiration, but it is also the place where I get my hope and energy
to go on living, notwithstanding the harshness I have experimenting in
my own life. Nature speaks me not only of its variety of colors and
forms, but especially of its enormous power disguised by its apparent
silence and immobility. This is why my work is constantly suggesting
movement and line/forces by means of which Nature expresses its essence
through the ages
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Now my work is finished, I can say, and also my experience as an
artist in residence here at Saksala ArtRadius Centre. I add my work to
that of the other artists who have preceded me here giving my personal
view of the theme 'This is our Nature'. It is interesting to see how
different is the way in which each one approached the same subject. The
outdoor space and the museum contain the evidences of all this process
of entering in contact with the environment and of finding a key to
disclose a part of the treasure. I found very interesting that in the
museum the work of the artists is exposed near that of the children who
come here and sometimes work with together with them farther than with
Marja de Jong.
I found myself at ease in this place, immediately at home. As an artist
my reference point is nature and here I found inspiration and I was
surprised that the elements on which to focus my attention appeared
immediately clear to me.
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It is a peaceful place this one and a perfect place to work. Even if
in the period of my permanence not so many artists where here, I could
taste how lively and inspiring it is. The familiar atmosphere favors the
exchange of experiences, also sustained by the very large library in
which it is easy to find something interesting to go in deep.
It is surprising that this place which is situated in a rural area near
a very little village in Finland is chosen by so many artists from
different parts of the world who come here to work, but now I well
understand why.
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ALLAPRIMA MUSEUM
