The Passion of Lovers

Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, 2011

La donna cento teste

Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 100 cm

This is my first painted portrait, and my first nude. With this piece I experimented a different painting technique, less pop and more surrealistic: the result is softer, more pictorial than usual, with no hard black borders - I am satisfied with it expecially in the hands, the "pet" and the vagina-eye.

The model is my girlfriend Elena, who I thank very much.

The title is taken from one of Max Ernst picture novels: "The one hundred heads woman".

Salomè

Acrylic Painting on Canvas, 150 x 100 cm.

This is my largest piece so far, and a troubled one.
It took me nearly a month to finish it, due to many accidents occured while working. The marker used for the preparatory sketch blurred, ruining the pink that had to be repainted - the color I used for the violet was no longer on sale (I used a ten-years-old jar of acrylic color, which fell on the floor and broke in the middle of the work) so I had to redo it twice with a new color - the lilac pigment wasn't thick enough, and I did three hands of painting in order to obtain the desired thickness. For these reasons I also call it "The Cursed Canvas".

The painting depicts Salome, stepdaughter of Herod Antipas, who danced before him and her mother Herodias at the occasion of his birthday, and in doing so gave her mother the opportunity to obtain the head of John the Baptist.

This work will be shown at Ortika Street Art Lovers show in Rome:
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The Kiss 2

Acrylic painting on canvas, 30 x 40 cm

Smack! Smack!! Smack!!! Can't get enough of your kisses! The second kiss after this one!

The Kiss

Acrylic painting on canvas, 30 x 40 cm

My new work, expressly done for the G40 exhibition at ArtWhino, is a relatively small piece of a kiss. I think I'll make at least one more for the exhibition.

The sacrifice of Isaac

Acrylic painting on canvas, 80 x 100 cm

After "Jacob Wrestling With The Angel", I go ahead with a classic biblical tale. As you may know :), Abraham is told by God to sacrifice his son, Isaac. He obeys the order, and is going to kill his son when an Angel, sent by God, stops Abraham's hand.

Jacob wrestling with the Angel

Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 100 cm

My first fatigue of 2010 is a large (80 x 100) painting of a biblical tale: the struggle between Jacob and "the angel" (depicted in the Bible as a stranger). I was inspired by an exhibition about Kosher at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, where a large painting depicting the scene was there to illustrate why Jews don't eat back parts of animals (really, really weird diet). I was so impressed by the tale (expecially for the "fighting against God and win" thing) that when I came back in Italy I started to read the biblical story of Jacob (really a naughty guy!) to do my own version of the tale.

Here is the quote from Genesis:

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank"

(Gn 32,24-32)

Carl Gustav Jung

Last night I dreamt Jung.

In the morning I started this new painting (acrylic on board, 61 x 84 cm) and so I dedicated it to him.

I really enjoyed that royal blue color :D

Portrait of Sir jonathan McCorney

Third painting from my "portrait" series (see also Madalena Perez and Fritz Schoenberger).
Acrylic painting on board, 40 x 60 cm.

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Portrait of Madalena Perez

Second painting from my "portrait" series (the first one was Fritz Schoenberger).
Acrylic painting on board, 40 x 60 cm.

Available at my Etsy Shop

Portrait of Fritz Shoenberger

Acrylic painting on board, 40 x 60 cm.

Available at my Esty shop

Charlie Brown Mini Munny

These munnies are funny to paint :)
This is my first one, picturing a Vaconized Charlie Brown.
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live painting @ circolo magnolia: Photos on Flickr!

Yesterday's live painting photos are now on flickr. Check them out!

Lovebirds Moleskine™

Mixed media on Moleskine™ notebook, 13x21 cm, 64 white pages. Both on sale at vacon.etsy.com