About
I am an Italian artist and musician, living and working in Gorizia, Friuli Venezia Giulia. I graduated from the Art School of Gorizia and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, leaving in 1988 to devote myself full-time to exhibitions and to my work as a graphic designer and illustrator.
During those years, a group of artists with a shared vision of artistic expression formed. Around the same time, in the second half of the 1980s, I began exhibiting under the guidance of Franco Milani, with shows held primarily in northern Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, and Germany. In 1987, I participated in the first edition of Arte Immagine and won first prize in an international exhibition in Croatia, in the graphics section.
From then on, I exhibited regularly, both in solo and group shows, often expanding beyond traditional exhibitions into performances and audiovisual installations. These years also marked the beginning of my relationship with music, understood as a field of experimentation parallel to visual art.
2000 and beyond
After several years working as an illustrator for advertising and publishing agencies, I began drawing family trees almost by chance. This activity gradually became my primary occupation. At the same time, my involvement with music intensified through personal experimentation and collaborations with other musicians. As a result, I progressively set aside exhibition activity, which I resumed only recently, in 2022.
That same year, I began the long-term project The Great Rock and Roll History, suspending all other activities in order to devote myself entirely to its realization, with completion currently planned for 2027
FIRST PIC: During the break from one of the performances we held in the 1990s with a close-knit group of local artists, here still from my art school days
SECOND PIC: Painting that won first prize for graphics at an international meeting of young artists from the Alps-Adriatic region
Geography Matters
Being born and raised on the eastern border of Italy means growing up within a complex cultural landscape. Historically linked to Austrian influence—we were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the end of the First World War—this area remained highly sensitive to what was happening in Vienna, from Abstract Expressionism to Actionism.
At the same time, my city was physically divided by the Iron Curtain, a presence that profoundly marked daily life and fostered a natural curiosity toward Eastern Europe and its graphic traditions. Added to this were the influence of Trieste’s port and its routes to the East, which contributed to an early, almost unconscious cosmopolitanism.
These overlapping influences shaped my artistic approach. I have always felt equally drawn to the meticulous precision of Eastern European graphic artists, to historical masters such as Dürer, Bosch, the Flemish painters, and Escher, and to the liberating violence of Abstract Expressionism or the ferocious irony of certain strands of Pop Art.
In art as in music, I absorb everything that can expand my expressive range. I am less interested in cultivating a single recognizable style—although one inevitably emerges—than in consciously choosing the most appropriate visual language to express a given idea.
Exhibitions
At present, and until the completion of The Great Rock and Roll History, I will not be holding exhibitions, with the exception of an official public presentation of the first panel, currently planned for March or April. This page will be updated once the dates are confirmed.
Here a link to my last exhibition in London summer 2024
Following the conclusion of this project, I intend to resume exhibition activity on a regular basis.
Musical activity
My musical activity also progresses hand in hand with my drawing. Initially with the experimental group T.L.E., with which we performed only live performances, accompanying artistic events, and then with the project “The Silkway Riders,” which I discuss on a dedicated page on this website. In addition, as a fan of English and Irish folk music, I often perform traditional pieces from this repertoire. The photo shows a live performance with my guitarist friend Franco De Colle.
My Wonderful playlist
And now let’s have some fun…here’s the playlist that accompanied the creation of the great history of Rock and Roll, and which, with constant additions, accompanies all my drawings. There’s always music in the air.
