MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUE
Experimentation with materials is fundamental an artistic path. It has characterized the history of art since its dawn. For the artists of the past, the value of their works coincided more or less partially with the value or preciousness of the materials employed. This took place in those historical periods or in those geographic areas who disavowed the value of the artist's personality and who, against any form of pseudo stardom of the “art operator” himself, considered the artist a “very high craftsman” and nothing more. In the Renaissance the artist became in effect an "artificer" (from the Latin artifex) an out-of-the-ordinary personality. The myth of the Genius was born.
From that moment on, the value of the work is increasingly dictated by the value of its creator (and therefore based on aerial and intangible values) and less and less based on the quality of the materials. Before the Renaissance, however, in some periods and in some civilizations there was a certain stardom of the artists who thus in some cases exceeded the equivalence of the quality of the materials = value of the work; just think of Greek sculptors such as Phidias or the mythical painter Apelles! During the Renaissance some artists achieve a certain artistic freedom that characterized their relationship with the commissioners and the patreons. Think of the cases of Cimabue and Giotto.
My desire to establish a continuity with the Italian tradition marked by the Renaissance does not prevent me from understanding, as a contemporary artist, the fundamental distinction between the spiritual element of the artwork and its objectivity. I’m a conceptual artist because it is not possible to ignore the break with the past. As explained by Nietzsche we moderns are "irremediably modern”. The only possibility is to rediscover an ancient spirit, albeit in absolutely contemporary forms and methods. For this reason my relationship with materials wants to be similar to that of an ancient master in the spirit, in the extreme attention I pay to the choice of the materials themselves and to the study of new materials that can help me in turning into a final artistic object my primeval idea of the Artwork.
