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Armonia (Harmony) Oil on canvas 38,5x54 (2002) SOLD This painting was created by magic! following my arm, the pencil was an extension of it. I enjoyed every single step of this painting. I love the expression of the eyes, especially the woman’s ones. And the position of the bodies, a deep together love committment. The yellow is light, joy and harmony!  Oil on cardboard 30x40 (2003) Price on demand Believing that the spirit of the One, Goddess and God exist in all things, in the trees, rain, flowers, the sea, in each other and all of natures creatures. This means that we must treat "all things" of the Earth as aspects of the divine, and respect them |
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Dolcezza per un figlio (Sweetness for a new born baby) Oil on canvas 60x120 Price is available on demand I was working in Moçambique, running a water and sanitation project, I was mostly living in rural villages, dealing with women and children, and was in charge both of a feasibility study and of the empowerment and awareness campaign components. Many sugar cans around, the first time for me to see them, and many young women going to become mothers..the link was natural: sucking the sweet sugar from the can gives the same nectar to the new born baby. At the same time, I wanted to point out the hard work these women do in the fields.  Dolce tepore di un sonno condiviso oil on cotton 69x46,5 Price is available on demand |
Malizia
oil on canvas
86,5x116
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GEA oil on canvas 70x55 Price is available on demand |
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L’attesa (The waiting) oil and volcanic sand on canvas 54,5x 75,5 SOLD |
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Madre (Mother) oil on canvas 60x80 SOLD |
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Maternità Africana (African motherhood) Oil on canvas 50x60 Price is available on demand One of the paintings I love more! I made it while I was living in Moçambique, it came very spontaneously. Africa is like a big mother, gives birth, embraces.Failure of this natural progression – becoming mother - brings so much anguish, shame and despair to the family but much more to the woman affected. Africa is frequently represented as the figure of a woman, mothers and motherhood remain a powerful symbolic force, women as both victims and agents of change. Africa's future is as an engine of global economic growth which will be directly linked to the status of women on the continent. Africa will rise when women take roles as educated and equal partners in society. Africa’s future is female. |
Nella bottega dei vasi
oil on canvas
50x60
(2003)
SOLD
Pausa bevendo lanho (Coconut water break)
oil and sand on canvas
83x63
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During my stay in Zambezia, Moçambique, I very much enjoyed fresh juicy coconuts. Especially driving through the plantation, I used to stop and buy them from local children, it was such a restoring dring in such a hot day!
Quadretto familiare (Family portrait)
oil and batik
50x70
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Sensualità (Sensuality) oil and batik 62,5x69,5 (2002) Price is available on demand |
Soffio di donna
oil and sand on canvas
60x80
SOLD
A blow. Gentle and shaping as silk. My father's favourite painting. I dedicate it to his soul
Sognando
Oil on canvas
49.5 x 32
(2000)
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Una pittura da Zonca (A painting from Zonca) oil on canvas 30x40 (2003) |
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Wicca
Oil and silver leaf on canvas
40x50
SOLD
I was living on a sailing boat at that time, and felt a very strong connection with nature. Wiccan believe that the spirit of the One, Goddess and God exist in all things, in the trees, rain, flowers, the sea, in each other and all of natures creatures. This means that we must treat "all things" of the Earth as aspects of the divine, and respect them.
 Venditrici di spezie (Spices sellers) oil and sand on canvas 104x124 Price is available on demand |
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Xi-coração (Crossing hearts) oil and sand on canvas 60,5x69,5 (2004)
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Un abbraccio (A hug) oil and sand on canvas 50x60
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Ricordo del Bangladesh (Memory of Bangladesh)
Oil on canvas
91x125
(2002)
SOLD
I was working in Bangladesh at that time, for a microcredit program aimed to the empowerment of rural women in Jessore. I still have fond memories of this overwhelming and yet charming Country. Its creative endeavors inspired me to paint these women and their lively dresses during the everyday life in the market. When I finished the painting, there were only three figures, then – all of a sudden – the fourth one appeared: the woman wearing fresh flowers in her hair. She had just to emerge from the canvas, and I made her alive. I used a volcanic sand, mixing it with oil colours.
Please, take some time to know more about this Country (extreme poverty , extraordinary birth rate , devastating effects of floods and cyclones, the 1971 mass killings - one of the most concentrated act of genocide in the XXth century, environmental consequences of shrimps industries/prawn culture, and so on).
Un pomeriggio a Quelimane (An afternoon in Quelimane)
Oil
30x40
(2003)
SOLD
In 2003 I have been invited to go to Moçambique again (my third time) in order to consider a job proposal. That’s a draw I made during an afternoon in the city of Quelimane, town and seaport on the Indian Ocean, where I had previously spent several months, during my former stay in the Zambezia region. Agriculture is by far the largest industry, nine-tenths of the population is rural. Although only 5 percent of the land is arable, 80 percent of the people work in agriculture. The farming techniques are primitive, involving few tools and work animals. Women in rural areas generally keep their traditional garb of long strips of fabric with brightly colored African patterns, that are wrapped around the body, under the arms, and over one shoulder. They also have retained the traditional head scarf or turban. Young children rarely are separated from their mothers. It is customary for women to tie their babies to their backs with a strip of cloth and take them along when they work in the fields.
State of mind
Oil and gold leaf on canvas
30x50
(2004)
SOLD
In 2004, I took a break from my humanitarian committment in the developing countries. In fact I wanted to reflect on the real effectiveness of foreign aid, as I had the impression that everything was keeping going back to the same failed ideas that prevent most aid money from actually reaching the world’s poor. I believe there must be another way to reduce the suffering, and giving back dignity to the disadvantaged people. With this state of mind, I started a new life in Sicily, preparing myself for a new committment.
This painting, made using for the first time some gold leaves, remarks the beautiful chaos inside, the one that makes you aware of what your heart really beats for.
Unconditional love_Oil on canvas
This painting has been conceived and created for my friend Lydia and her newborn baby Wanja. I thought of mother and child at one with the nature, expressing their tenderness through the white flowers. The deep blue of the sea and the green and ochra of the wood surround this hug and cherish this profound link. No boundaries, no profiles in the figures to express a no limit horizon of unconditional love.
This painting has been conceived and created for my friend Lydia and her newborn baby Wanja. I thought of mother and child at one with the nature, expressing their tenderness through the white flowers. The deep blue of the sea and the green and ochra of the wood surround this hug and cherish this profound link. No boundaries, no profiles in the figures to express a no limit horizon of unconditional love.
Oil on canvas
40x40
(2023)
SOLD
Oil on canvas
58x75.5
(2023)
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I momenti migliori dell’amore sono quelli di una quieta e dolce malinconia, dove tu piangi e non sai perchè e quasi ti rassegni riposatamente ad una sventura… e non sai quale. L’amore passionale, meraviglioso, caldo, ardente, impetuoso, ma prima o poi finisce, proprio perché la fiamma della smania irrazionale, inevitabilmente, nel tempo si affievolisce.
Love's best moments are those of quiet, sweet melancholy, where you weep and you don't know why, and almost resign yourself restfully to a misfortune... and you don't know which one. Passionate love, wonderful, hot, ardent, impetuous, but sooner or later it ends, precisely because the flame of irrational eagerness inevitably fades over time.
Oil on canvas
40x50
(2023)
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Protect your energy
Fuga, protezione, resistenza
Oil on canvas with golden leaf
70.5x50.5
(2023)
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The thread that resists breaks, the resilient one transforms and adapts
Resonanz
Oil and gold leaf on canvas
44.5x54
(2023)
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Sie tanzen im Wind jeder Jahreszeit, ohne Rücksicht auf die Sonne, die im Sommer ihr Laub wärmt, und ohne Angst vor dem Schnee, der im Winter auf ihre Äste fällt.
Sie sind die Wächter des Waldes, die über das Leben des Waldes und der umliegenden Gipfel wachen und ihren Atem in sich aufnehmen.
Ihre Anwesenheit löst subtile und tiefe Emotionen aus, die durch den besonders intensiven Duft des Harzes und den Klang hervorgerufen werden, den ein Teil von uns, wenn auch unbewusst, hören kann.
Resonanzbäume
Ihr Atem - im Allgemeinen der Atem der Natur - vibriert, bewegt unsere innersten Akkorde und führt zu einer vollständigen gemeinsamen Handeln.
Schau mir in die Augen
Öl auf Leinwand mit Gold
44x44
(2024)
SOLD
Behind every strong person is a story that gave them no choice 
Sciatu
Öl auf Leinwand
64x84
(2025)
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Du bist das, was meine Seele atmen lässt.
Sciatu ist ein sizilianisches Wort. Wörtlich bedeutet es Atem. Für uns Sizilianer hat es eine tiefere Bedeutung. Sciatu ist Seele, Essenz, Leben, Liebe.
Sciatu ist ein sizilianisches Wort. Wörtlich bedeutet es Atem. Für uns Sizilianer hat es eine tiefere Bedeutung. Sciatu ist Seele, Essenz, Leben, Liebe.
Schutzengel
Öl auf Leinwand
62x79
(2025)
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Ein Traum von reiner Liebe
Joy as an act of resistance
Freude als Akt des Widerstands
Öl auf Leinwand mit Gold
44x55
(2025)
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Freude ist mehr als nur ein flüchtiges Gefühl – sie ist ein radikaler Akt. In Zeiten der Unterdrückung, des Kampfes und der Not wird das Erleben von Freude zu einem Akt des Widerstands. Es ist eine Weigerung, sich von den Umständen bestimmen zu lassen, eine Aussage, dass wir auch in den dunkelsten Momenten Schönheit, Hoffnung und Sinn finden können. Ich habe lebendige Farben, dynamische Formen und symbolische Elemente verwendet, um diese Idee auszudrücken. Frauen wie die Protagonistinnen des Alltags im Dorf, die hinter einer einfachen Geste wie dem Mahlen ihre tiefe Verbundenheit und Solidarität verbergen. Jede Figur steht für diese Kraft – Freude als ein lebendiger, unbeugsamer Widerstand gegen all die Kräfte, die versuchen, unseren Geist zu brechen. Sich für Freude zu entscheiden, bedeutet in diesem Kontext nicht, den Schmerz oder die Schwierigkeiten zu ignorieren, sondern unser Recht zu bekräftigen, voll zu leben, zu lieben und auf die schönste und menschlichste Art zu widerstehen.
Wie haben Momente der Freude euch geholfen, Herausforderungen zu meistern? Wie kann Freude zu einem Werkzeug in unserem gemeinsamen Kampf für Gerechtigkeit, Gleichheit und Würde werden?
Ich hoffe, dass dieses Werk erinnert, dass Freude nicht nur eine persönliche Erfahrung ist, sondern eine kollektive Kraft, die uns verbindet.
Holding
Öl auf Leinwand
62x79
(2025)
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars
Let go
Oil on canvas
44 x 44
(2025)
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Let go → detachment (from the ego? from the past?)
Letting go of what holds us back: fears, expectations, the need for control. In this release, a space of inner freedom opens — a stillness where the self becomes lighter and prepares to receive something new. The work invites us to recognize surrender as a mystical experience, a threshold moment leading toward the fullness of being.
Amar y vivir
Oil on canvas
44x44
(2025)
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Amar y vivir → integration, the return to being
A journey in which life becomes intensity and the heart becomes a sacred place. In this work, love is not merely a feeling but a spiritual practice — a way of inhabiting the world with awareness and fullness.
Abbandonarsi
Oil on canvas
44x44
(2026)
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Abbandonarsi → surrender (to the divine? to love? to time? to pain?)
To surrender is to accept without resistance. It is a silent act in which one relinquishes control and begins to listen to what is happening, within and without.
Gioia fragile
Oil on canvas
44x44
(2026)
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Here the mystical arises in suspension: a delicate, almost imperceptible joy that appears like an apparition. The figure wrapped in butterfly wings suggests the instant in which the soul perceives the invisible—the sacred resides in delicacy.
Come angeli perduti
Oil on canvas
44x44
(2026)
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This painting is a shipwreck of existence: the body is reduced to its essence, the horizon remains undefined. Here the mystical is not gentleness, but vertigo. The human being—like a fallen angel—touches the limit and glimpses the unknown. The wound becomes a threshold. In the disorientation of the open sea, between loss and waiting, a sacred space opens where the human encounters the limit and perhaps the divine.
Scars for redemption
Oil on canvas
46x44
(2026)
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Scars for Redemption (you have to go through the pain in order to recover from it)
The scar as the seal of a passage. Pain is not denied, but crossed and transformed into the possibility of healing. Here the mystical coincides with the capacity to give meaning to one’s own wounds, to turn them into a place of inner rebirth.
Oil on canvas
44x44
(2026)
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Eager for Clarity → The need to understand arises
The search for a clear vision, for a luminous answer—a tension toward truth, a longing for revelation.
Reconnection and Grounding
Oil on canvas with ashes of natural resins
30x80
(2026)
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Reconnection and Grounding opens a space for return and balance
L'araba fenice
Oil on canvas with ashes of natural resins
163x41
(2026)
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L’Araba Fenice speaks of inner rebirth and a new beginning, a luminous conclusion
