From Past to Present

Museo Machiavelli S.Casciano V.P.

 From that very first show ever (explained in the preceding post) up to the last and most recent one, time has passed with art classes and contacts with artist friends and teachers who have been my precious guides.  Changes have come about in my painting. Wouldn't the contrary be strange.    A process of maturation is inevitable: self criticism, a visual awareness of other artists' work,  experimentation,  learning by trial and error and just  plain   painting.

Last June I participated in  a show located in the villa  once residence of Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian  historian, writer,  politician and philosopher. The villa  is now a museum that bears his name. The exposition was articulated throughout the entire villa and I chose the wine cellar because of its suggestive atmosphere.

Note the stone and brick walls and, in the background,the original wooden kegs which stored  wine  made from grapes harvested in that area. The odor of wine, even though the kegs are empty, was inebriating!!!

Below are other works from the show.

These last two pieces are old wooden "doors" that sealed the huge kegs where wine was aged. I refinished them using  wax, polished them and applied small paintings depicting Bacco, God of wine and harvest, along with other figures in a dream world  of pleasure. It was fun doing these especially for the occasion.