Artist Statement

I love images, and making them. And as far as my memory can remember, I have always.

Images are a primary way for me to understand the world.

All images: science illustration, Leonardo sketchbook, pulp magazines, engine schematic principle, pie charts, beer bocks, records, Matisse, and Durer, and Twombly, military illustrations, fashion catalogs, wine bottles stickers, … to name just a few

Luckily in the past 150 years, the invention of photography, the internet, mechanic reproduction, flat screens, have enabled us to live in a world that is saturated with them.

This has enhanced our ability to know -and to create- art to a level that previous civilizations could not even dream of. It has also heightened the difficulty of making art to the same degree. Furthermore, the definition of what art is has also fluctuated from a simple, univocal notion to a multiplicity of interpretations, trends, manifestos, to the point that only posterity is allowed to decide what is art…

I –like every one of us- have to live with it. In opposition to artists of the past, we live with a multiplicity of referential art, sometimes mutually exclusive, and that the relativity of post modernism makes all equally valid.

So, what kind of artist am I? I don’t know. I like abstraction, I like cheesy comics illustration and I like great art, and I also like primitive sculpture. And I know something of all of them.

So I consider myself more as an image creator than an artist. What defines art these days is what powers who are have decided is Art. So, instead, I just make my images, and let future decide (maybe…)

There is often a geometric composition in my paintings: abstraction of shape, or if they are realistic, a platonician idea that there is more in reality than the eye perceives. Taking the viewer to another level of reality –or conscience- is among the highest art can achieve. So some of those pieces aim to be images of a state of mind, be it a flickering feeling of the moment for some, ore a more solid long term impression I learned through my experience, and want to express, transmit and teach to the viewer.