The scent of oil paints
Nureyev
Oil and soft pastels on mdf 30x48, January 2024
Rudolf Nureyev's legs, photographed by Richard Aven in 1961.
Manu 2023
Oil on mdf, January 2024
The portrait of Emanuele, as he was in November 2023, shortly before his three-year degree.
Private collection
Imperfetta
Oil on canvas 60x70, February 2023
I had wanted to reproduce it for some time and I took the opportunity for the group show "The portrait: faces and soul". Imperfect, as the beauty of Venus is defined and as I define my painting.
Alda
Oil on canvas 40x40, February 2022
Alda Merini returns among my portraits as a symbol of the woman who screams in silence.
Freddie
Pen on A4 paper, December 2021 The portrait of the great artist in the thirtieth year after his death.
Patrick Zaki
Pen on A4 paper, December 2021 I made the portrait of Patrick in the days of his release from Egyptian prison.
Liliana Segre
Watercolor on A4 paper, March 2021
I decided to pay homage to my new honorary citizen. She who was heavily insulted for showing a shoulder (she had her photograph taken while she was getting the anti-Covid vaccine) to prove that she is still an uncomfortable witness.
Kamala Harris
Ballpoint pen on A4 paper, November 20202
I tried my hand at a ballpoint portrait and chose the woman of the moment, the newly elected vice-president of the United States.
Codice 2
Half hero
Oil and chalk on wood 30x82, April 2020
The picture is dedicated to healthcare professionals who have worked in inhumane conditions in recent months to be able to cure us of Covid 19, risking and even losing their lives. They never wanted to be called heroes and such a definition would not have been necessary if the public health sector had not been reduced to a minimum in recent decades. Will politics re-evaluate the situation or will it proceed as if nothing had happened?
How not to agree with Bertold Brecht who wrote: "Unfortunate the people who need heroes".
Alda Merini
Oil on cardboard, June 2019
In February 2020 I donated the painting to the Rivoli library, dedicated to the poet.
Private collection.
Daenerys
Oil on cardboard 26x34, June 2019.
Protagonist of the dramatic finale of the "Game of Thrones" series.
Private collection.
The weight of thoughts
Oil on canvas 60x60, April 2018.
Dedicated to our children and to us who are unable to ease their youth worries.
Available on Saatchi Art at the following link .
Dad in 1956
Oil on canvas 30x40, October 2017.
From a passport photo of 1956.
Private collection.
Mark Knopfler
Oil on canvas 70x50, January 2016.
Private collection.
Tom Hiddleston
Oil on canvas 30x40, May 2014.
Private collection.
A&M
Oil on canvas 50x50, October 2014.
Private collection.
Dad as a young man
Oil on canvas 35.5x46, December 2015.
Private collection.
Dad now
Oil on canvas 40x40, September 2014, frame in a layer of plaster and acrylic.
Private collection.
At the window
Oil on canvas 70x50, June 2015.
Private collection.
Self portrait with greyhound
Oil and oil pastels on canvas cardboard 35x50, frame in a layer of plaster and acrylic