Artist Talk Magazine - issue 11

comics, and I noticed that not only
did my enthusiasm return, but
there was something else…
Sometimes, I’m inspired to create
by simple reflection on a common
object or a crumpled or torn piece
of paper, and my inspiration comes
from there I was having fun whilst
painting. When I see people who
look at my works with admiration,
who are photographed next to a
comic book of Tex Willer, or buy
a work with satisfaction, it fills me
with joy. It makes me very happy
to be able to glimpse the smile of a
child, a teenager or an adult.
Art, because they are the two
artistic currents that I love most.
The piece I’m most fond of is
hanging on my bedroom wall. It’s a
portrait of Wile E. Coyote riding a
Red Bull chasing the Road Runner.
I really love it. It manages to make
me smile, even when I’m angry.
I think Instagram is the social
media that has been most useful
for my art. It helped me to become
known outside Italy.
My dream project is to be able to
exhibit my work in some important
galleries in the United States and
be able to pave my way into the
large American market. In Italy
Hyperrealism is well known, but art
galleries find it hard to open their
doors to hyper-realistic artists for
two reasons: in the first place is
that most of them are focused on
historicized artists, and the second
is the amount of time it takes for a
work to be created.
I hope my work will be exhibited
all over the world in future. It is
probably a risky dream, but if we
stop dreaming, we also stop living.
Dreams help us to move forward,
even in the face of looming defeat.
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TEX WILLER
I had a difficult adolescence and I
found, in painting, the possibility
of feeling alive. Painting and
creating another reality allowed
me to overcome very serious
health problems. I suffered from
eating disorders (anorexia). When
I paint, like when I’m with my dogs,
I am in a different world made of
immediacy, happiness, spontaneity
when all the superstructures
collapse and I can be in contact
with that part of myself that has
been hidden for a while and can
now come out in the form of color,
details and harmony.
Roy Lichtenstein is one artist who
inspired me greatly. I love all his
works. When I have the chance
to admire his works, I am always
fascinated. You can observe in
some of my paintings aspects of
Hyperrealism and aspects of Pop
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