ARTIST
Oil paintings
My figurative oil painting practice revolves around memory, transformation, and the impact of time on places, objects, and beings. I draw inspiration from environments marked by abandonment, the sea, or the mutation of the body, where each space becomes a silent witness to a decaying history. Through my works, I explore deserted places—family homes, old buildings, underwater spaces—which I document through photography, drawing, and careful observation. I am interested in the marks left by humidity, rust, mold, or traces of a bygone human presence. These elements fuel a reflection on forgetting, disappearance, but also on the resilience of matter. My approach is also influenced by my underwater dives, where I capture organic forms, reliefs, textures, and colors specific to the aquatic world. These visions allow me to create compositions imbued with poetry and strangeness, revealing grotesque or hybrid forms inspired by corals, shipwrecks, and marine organisms. This imagery becomes the basis for a broader reflection on the Anthropocene and the transformation of our ecosystem. Finally, my figurative characters sometimes metamorphose into marine or chimerical creatures, embodying the tensions between fragility, mutation, and hope. Gestures, gazes, and anatomical details then become carriers of emotion and meaning, evoking the deep connections between humans and their environment. My paintings are constructed from washes and superimposed layers, with particular attention paid to textures and dichromatic harmonies. Through this approach, I seek to offer the viewer a sensory experience that blends presence and absence, life and decay, beauty and alteration.
Abandoned spaces
During a stay in Italy, I was deeply affected by the exploration of an abandoned building, imbued with transformations and erased memories. Inspired by the frescoes, objects, and funereal atmosphere of the place, I created a series of paintings evoking the passage of time and the memory of forgotten spaces.
At uncle Gabi's
Inspired by a trip to Hungary, this series explores my uncle's abandoned family home, where objects frozen in time become silent witnesses to a fading memory. Through these nostalgic scenes, I evoke the connection to my origins, while seeking to revive the erased memories of my father, who suffered from Alzheimer's.
Marine universe
This series explores aquatic environments through shapes inspired by corals and marine organisms, captured during dives in isolated underwater locations. By combining figuration and abstraction, my works reveal a universe in metamorphosis, a mirror of the fragility of the oceans in the face of the transformations of the Anthropocene.
Wrecks
In this series dedicated to wrecks and boats, I capture the imprint of time on the marine world, contrasting the vitality of the colorful rowboats with the silence of the sunken boats discovered during my dives. My paintings transform these scenes of abandonment into testimonies of the beauty of the seabed and its fragility, where each fragment evokes the sea as a living memory in perpetual mutation.
