Over the years, I have been working, researching, coping with the social rules that today connect or destroy the relationship between the painter and the audience. I finally ended up with a fundamental question: does painting still make any sense?
The art of painting will probably always make sense, such a non-verbal perfect communication, existing since ever, it has sense.
But the ultra-liberal laws of the market end up no longer affecting only art trade, but also the ways in which artworks are produced, spread, and perceived.
Therefore a certain part of the market becomes elitist and the largest part of the common public is driven to be a passive spectator of great events. And finally, the general cultural level is impoverished, the public taste is completely flattened, and, as an icing on the cake, even the word “artist” is somehow emptied of meaning, too often used inappropriately.
Why artists, in my opinion, should be part of groups, currents, movements, they would be continuously challenged, excluded, or legitimated, and surely they would help art in growing and evolving in much more diffused and differentiated ways.
For these reasons today, above all, I think that painting is a form of resistance. It requires courage