Paintings
Self-portraits
“Painting is a way of existing; at moments this existing gives me a sense of happiness, it almost lifts me…”
The docks
“…Of my city I love above all that air so typical of Viareggio, of the sea; I love its docks, which I have painted from my earliest youth to this day; I love its colours, at times full of light, heightened by the strong Versilian sun…”
Drawings
“If it is true that art is sometimes suffering, then joy can come from a small sketch on a scrap of paper”
Female figures
“Painting, for me, is life; life has countless faces, and so my painting too must be forever changing”
Seascapes
“Art is form more than content; the subject is only a pretext, the form must withstand the scrutiny of time”
Still lifes
“Painting changes, it is like the seasons: it bears different and varied fruit, and one cannot always stay attached to the same things. So there is no question of moving from abstraction to figuration or the other way round — for the artist it is all one”
Landscapes
“For me art has been above all joy and comfort. It has been torment too, mind you, because a painter’s work is a ceaseless contest with nature and its beauty”
Riflessismo
“…There arose in me the need to take on work that would bring out a new subject matter and a new technique; from there I began a steady search for forms of expression fit for today’s world, and in that period came the study I called ‘Riflessismo’.”
Mechanical Symbolism
“…Painting is nearly easy; making art without falling into painterly rhetoric is fundamentally hard, especially when one tries to take on new forms and new content”
Frescoes
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