Sobre el Artista

I was born on the day of the summer solstice in 1950 to Laurenzana, a small village in Basilicata, but I've always lived in Milan, where I studied, I was trained professionally, graduating in Physics, and worked in the field of telematics and Information Technology My professional life took me in another direction with respect to art, but I always cultivated my passion for drawing, using pencils, crayons, oil pastels, ink, giving vent to my creativity and imagination. Since I retired from work, the greater availability of free time allowed me to step up production of work and I have chosen the use of markers because I find them practical, fun and allow me to suspend the execution at any time to devote tennis players that is my other great passion, sports and the outdoors. I never attended courses in painting or drawing, nor intend to do so, not presumption, but I do not want to put too much in my job accomplishments or be induced to copy, imitate someone or something even unconsciously. I would like to remain a pure amateur, a naif that test and experiment according to their own intuition and inspiration, continuing to feel emotions in the construction phase and hope that the end result will give to those who observe it. A review of all my works are published on my website, www.galleriavirtualesalvia.it. I like to draw and paint everything ... landscapes, still life’s, nudes, scenes and everything that flows in front of my eyes, or more often what is formed in the imagination of my mind. I always put a touch of irony in my work, because I think that we should not take herself too seriously ... and in fact, I made almost 200 caricatures of all my friends who I fight on the tennis court. In the period 2009 to 2014, I have also created many cartoons on politics and society, but then I stopped because disgusted by events, people and more. I always need to invent something new ... kind draw the zodiac sign of my friends using their initials ... I have made several and I have collected them in a book, by entering their caricatures and the meaning of their name. Some of my drawings I used them as a backdrop for some of my poems and I made a book, titled WORDS DRAWN. At the end of 2014, I started to represent situations, moments and feelings of everyday life, using figurines ethnic faceless because I think that in this historical period and in this society we are all a little 'anonymous. I called this my kind NORMOREALISMO. Someone said that recalls De Chirico of the period of New York ... I really do not have inspired him or anyone else, partly because not much of a museum-goer, and I love the outdoors, sports, drawing and painting only when bad weather forces me to stay at home. I am an artist of smuggling ... my friends call me the artennista ...