Description

My latest work mixes abstract and figurative painting and photography. I use images of my close family in their youth from old photograph albums and use them as though they are strangers, to simulate a detachment because I remember and know them as adults. I also frequently use religious images which reflect my Catholic upbringing in the Italian countryside.
But no matter what base image I use, the technique is always similar. First I lay down a very thick layer of varnish and then draw over it with a very chaotic movement of marks in different media.
I do this to try and evoke and question powerful central parameters of human existence such as life span, identity, body and death. I am afraid of the velocity of time; confusion often disturbs my practice, and I try to catch a moment in time to imprint it onto a painting or an image to keep that moment alive forever. But of course the painting is not alive; it is dead and only the viewer makes it alive in a new moment, creating a new cycle of life, memory and, ultimately, death.


ireneo130479@msn.com