Migration

Migration is one of the topic issue of our time. Natural phenomen and unstoppable.

I worked with dedicated painting softwares in order to print digitally with the new procedure of direct print on aluminium, and I reworked some of the artworks with rhinenstones, flitters and sequins. The metal surface is here like the golden surface of the medieval paintings and mosaics: a place of no-space and no-time. In "The birds" I have glued circa 6000 rhinenstones on the aluminum surface: mesmerising outcome!

Like in Hitchcock's film we are scared by the horde and a swarm of locusts reminds us biblical plagues, one army ant alone is insignificant but the entire army can devour everything on their way. A school of manta rays can suggest infernal images and even beautiful butterflies or colurful ladybugs, like the monarchs if in swarm, could be appalling... But we are flying, all of us together, in the same direction, using our strength in numbers during hardships... we are sharing a common planet and common resources that must be safeguarded and not spoiled.

Migration n. 3 Devilfish 50 x 100 cm, Flitters on aluminum	Food (migration) Acrylic and flitters on aluminum, 50x100 cm, 2019
The Birds 50x100 cm, 2019. 6000 Rhinestones on aluminium. Migration is a natural phenomenon of life that cannot be stopped, like the flow of life cannot be stopped in all its mesmerising rivulets and spirals	The Birds detail detail with the Rhinenstones. The Birds, 50x100 cm, 2019. 6000 rhinenstones on aluminium
Migration no .6 (Army Ants) 50x100 cm, digital painting and print on brushed aluminium 2018	Migration no. 5 (Ladybugs) 50x100 cm, digital painting and print on brushed aluminium 2018
Migration n. 4 (Monarch Butterflies) 50x100 cm, digital painting and print on brushed aluminium 2018	Migration no. 3 (Manta Rays) 50x100 cm, digital painting and print on brushed aluminium 2017
Migration no. 2 (Locusts) 50x100 cm, digital painting and print on brushed aluminium 2017	Migration no. 1 (Birds) 50x100 cm, digital painting and print on brushed aluminium 2015
Food 50x100 cm, digital painting and print on brushed aluminium 2015 This is a desperate run towards the food or to the "promised land". But the fish are also food in the predator chain	The promised land (SOLD) 50x100 cm, Acrylics on canvas, 2015 If we look closer at the promised land we notice that the birds are still there but in another dimension...
The New Raft of the Medusa 50x100 cm, Acrylics on canvas, 2015 With the last painting "The new Raft of Medusa", I refer directly to Gèricault's famous painting. Nearly 200 years ago, Théodore Géricault painted a masterpiece of pity that questioned the mercantilist Europe about civilization, humanity, liberty, equality and fraternity. The Raft of the Medusa (1818-19). It is one of the most impressing paintings in the world in which the darkness at the centre of the painting seems to drag you into it.