ABOUT THE ARTIST

born in Catania (Italy), 1981
lives and works in Catania-Milano Italy

Hopeful X-Rays -(APOPTOSI Series)
An unusual medium, X-rays scans, mixes up with the most usual (painting) to compose images that need the support of light to become readable.The installation drives us through an aesthetical philosophy, or, if you prefer, a philosophical aesthetics: scans are taken when a pathological condition is suspected, and most of the ones shown are in fact from sick patients.This is the starting point of the artist’s inquiry into the body’s self-destruction, and self-regeneration, processes.What is philosophical here, or at any rate, worth some philosophical elaboration, is the contradiction that feeds life, i.e., its basic interdependence with death, and perhaps the very dependence of life and health from sickness and death.This is both a scientific, literary, and poetic topic, and the author piks up it precisely because in tune with his own knowledge in these fields; but once become artworks, scans undergo a drastic semantic and visual alteration: the assembly of sombre organic contours, bright oil colours, and the retro-illuminated scans short-circuits both reasoning and emotions into a surprising cold beauty.