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Tell us what you do and your beginnings.
I started painting after a car accident when I was doing my military service. It was 1997. Initially, my works were figurative. I took my first artistic steps in the city of Pistoia, where the community of artists was very developed but very limited in their vision of art. They were old and I was young, I thought they had the experience to teach me how to proceed in my artistic career. Instead, no, on the contrary, many of them had negative and almost arrogant comments about my work. Only one of them, Romolo Romano, always believed in me and pushed me to be myself. I owe everything to him.
So my painting became instinctive, aggressive, ironic, and angry at the same time. I started studying the various currents, and the various artists. I looked for wood in the companies near my home and my former employer, who believed in me, gave me broken sheets. I made large canvases with these waste materials and painted everything I saw around me. I continued like this until 2007. The accident I had had created serious psychological problems, so much so that I had become anorexic, I refused food and weighed 42 kg. I spent many years in therapy. However, it helped me a lot to free all the “me” that remained buried. So, in 2007 I began to express everything I loved and, out of fear, had remained closed inside me.
I began to give free rein to all the Spirituality that I had, I created votive statues and “Guardian Figures”. It was in this period that my artistic vein divided. Always following the same creative language, I began to create paintings that were and are a sort of diary of everything I see around me in the surrounding and tangible world. On the other hand, I began to create Tribal and Ritual Art, this was and is; the realization of what I see and feel in the invisible, intangible world in which I live perpetually. Difficult to explain, I live as if I were walking on the line that separates the tangible world of everyday life from the invisible world of the afterlife. I am not ashamed to say it and seem like a madman who escaped from who knows where.
I owe a lot to both worlds. I have had several important miracles since 1997, and so during the last one, in 2014, I promised that I would work for free to be able to advance the Word of God and the dialogue between religions. Today in 2025, I paint, I sculpt, I work with fabric, I forge Swords, I do everything; everything I feel I have to do according to the will of God. I must admit, that it has led me to important results.
What does your work aim to say?
I try to promote the message of dialogue, brotherhood, and cessation of gratuitous hatred, disrespect, and beauty. In addition, I encourage the deep meaning of Tribal Arts and Ritual Arts. A manuscript of mine on this subject “The Child with Dust Blanket”, is in the collection of the Guggenheim Library in Venice. Peggy Guggenheim also collected Tribal Art and immediately understood its importance.
The manuscript tells the story of a child, who having to leave home for the first time and face the world had difficulty interacting with it because he was completely covered by a blanket of dust, his eyes were unusable. But in the end, he managed to walk confidently, because developing the other senses, he began to “see and hear” not only with his eyes and ears.
This is the beauty of Tribal Arts, the work is not “cold” like a work of contemporary art, it is instead vibrant, full of warmth of Spirituality. Characteristics that I also look for in creating my work. And it is an immense joy for me when collectors tell me that my works convey something.
Where do you find inspiration in your art?
I am in love with Creation, nature, and animals, much less with men technically. I love Death Music, Metalcore, Black Metal, and many of its derivatives. I love reading old books, I love Art, and I love visiting churches and cemeteries, all this leads me to always be subject to many stimuli that I then report in my Ritual Works.
For the canvases instead… just look around… On social media stupidity runs at a frenetic pace traveling from post to post, on TV it often passes into the concept that if there is no discussion between several people who shout and offend each other, the hoped-for audience will not be reached. Books are now written in series just to attract the public, not to mention films or information. Material that inspires me with irony to reproduce in paintings, there is so much of it.