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)

Morgellons

I flirted for a long time with the idea of making a piece about Morgellons disease, and lastly I did it.

Copic markers and watercolor pencils on Bristol cardboard.
Size: 52 x 42 cm

La Gaja Scienza

Introducing morbid surgical elements (that I ADORE) and a Nietzsche-inspired cool title.

Copic markers and watercolor pencils on Bristol cardboard.
Size: 52 x 42 cm

The Secret Revealed

The ones of you that will go at my exhibition at Polaresco, will find this brand-new drawing in it, amongst many others!

Medium: Copic markers and colored pencils on Bristol cardboard.
Size: 42 x 52 cm

Available at my etsy shop

Autopsy of a hand

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Bristol paper is great!

Medium: Copic markers and colored pencils on Bristol cardboard.
Size: 42 x 52 cm

Available at my etsy shop

Still Life

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My new work, "still life". I really love those colors!

Medium: Copic markers and colored pencils on paper.
Size: 42 x 59 cm

Available at my etsy shop

Il Dissidente (The Dissident)

Can you find him? Here is the largest drawing on paper I made until now. I had really fun drawing all that people! Clic on the image to see a larger version.

Medium: Copic™ marker,fineliner and watercolor pencil on Copic™ Special Paper.
Size: 54 x 37 cm (11,8" x 13,7")

Available at my etsy shop

Moly_X_72

I just joined the "Moly_X" project, an international Moleskine™ sketchbook exchange. It's extremely interesting, here it's how it works:

You, an artist, a drawerm whatever, buy a japanese fold moleskine notebook, the one with the accordion-like pages (that was the hard part, here in Italy), then join one of the many Moly_X groups on the web, and start a drawing in the first few parts of the giant-page, and then send that moleskine to the next artist. At the end of the circle, each artist will receive his own scketchbook filled with drawings from talented artists from all around the world. Exciting, isn't it?

The "circle" I have joined is Moly_X_72, along with Kelley Frisby, Chris Hack, Jeni Yang, and Son Do Minh. So be sure to follow it as soon you will see something cool happen in there!

Disegno Novo - Challenge the Paper

I don't dislike social networks, when they are not totally useless (who said Facebook?): on the contrary, I'm almost an addict of Flickr.
Recently I'm enjoying rising a group, called "Disegno Novo - Challenge the paper!" that collects talented drawers in the Flickr community, slightly filtered by my own taste (so usually there are lots of tentacles and line drawing in there!) in order to help each other to improve and show artworks. I'm always keeping an eye on what's going there, and I have to say that there's always more than one quite interesting artwork every day, so I invite you all to take a look, you could find some great drawing and illustration like these:

"Equilibrio" by Bailon


"Judith" by Lady Orlando


"Senseo" by Redmer Hoekstra


"Ricky8" by Silav


"Not an artist_0346" by I ain't an artist


"String Theory" by Ori Toor