Three rooms, Three themes. . . .

room 1-"Measuring Space"- Pontremoli

On Saturday my show premium opened in Pontremoli bringing to a close months of planning, preparations, and even a video that , unfortunately, never saw the light (but I will tell you about that later.)

I was given three rooms in this beautiful undercroft with its walls of stone that must have many  stories to tell.  I gave each room a theme as a way of organizing my work and also a clarification of my use of the human body,  my main source of inspiration.

The first room, Measuring Space, is a series begun as a gift to my son when he recieved his degree in engineering. I used one of his technical drawings, part of an exam, as the basis for a painting and on that superimposed a figure. From that point on, I began to consider the figure as an object having the proportions, measurements and weight that are similar to an  architectural structure. The body lives in symbiosis with the architectural spaces it inhabits giving them breath and vitality. The energy given off by each being makes space live.

room 1 - "Measuring Space"

room 1 - "Measuring Space"

 In the second room I hung paintings from the series, "Connections",  my most recent work.
My idea here is that the human body exists in relationship to other beings and to the entire universe, that it has a balance of energy that is  physical as well as mental, emotional and spiritual. Man has a particular place in the world that is part of and relative to the entire universe. Here the spinal column is the form that embodies the energetic force and the connectivity that the human body exerts upon the universe. It is the physical and spiritual hinge that creates a relationship between the individual and all that surrounds him.

Room 2 - "Connections"

"Connections"

"Connections"

  There is a corridor that connects these first two rooms with the others including sculpture by another prize winner, and where, to continue the sequence, I hung other small paintings in the same theme, "Connections".

Scupture, "Le Stele", by Fiorella Noce

countinuing the series "Connections"

"Connections"

part of next series,"Transparency"

The 3rd and last room I  kept for my work with transparency.  "Transparency is a series that developed as I began to use internal forms of the body as elements of abstraction often suggesting internal and universal landscapes. The body's transparency reveals elements of harmony and conflict that are present in the vital process. During this phase of my work I began to experiment with transparent materials to underline my ideas: Plexiglas, glass, resin, fiberglass, wire mesh and wax.

"Transparency"

"Emerging Figures"

"Emerging Figures"

"Emerging Figures"

"Transparency"

small piece on the left is resin and glass . "Icon"

view from the corridor toward connecting rooms.

There were three glass cases in this room which again I divided into my three themes but displayed work on paper; drawings and etchings that pertained to each group.