I devised this collection for Friul Mosaic around three themes that were evocative,
contemporary and unprecedented: the humid tangle of tropical jungles, as a complex and
exotic expression of the plant world and the meanings linked to nature and respect for the
planet; the city of Milan, which through its architecture tells of the relationships between
places and people on the thread of time; and creatures that touch the sky, earth and water,
in a flight that is the most surprising of manifestations of the animal world.
Each of these themes is then declined into three specific groups of subjects, three different
representations of the plant universe, the human and social universe, and the light and
animal universe. Thus, Tropical Jungle is divided into three images related to the virgin
forest, three to the leaves of tropical plants, and finally three to giant alocasias. My
homage to the city of Milan investigates its most daring recent architecture, the design of
contemporary facades, the legacy of the 20th century masters. Flight in the animal world
is expressed through elegant dragonflies of intense blue, the plumage of pink flamingos,
fish that surprise by hovering in the air. Each of these images then lives on in three different
interpretations: in the fullness of its colours, in a sophisticated play of desaturation, in
refined fields completely in black, white and an infinite grey scale.
Three themes, nine subjects, twenty-seven declinations. Infinite possibilities