He prefers defining himself an artist in the classical sense of the term and not necessarily as a contemporary artist. This distinction is a natural consequence of his years studying at the Florence Academy of Art at a time when the student spent most of his working hours copying and imitating the artistic styles of the past. This apprenticeship was based on drawing and rendering from still life’s, plaster casts and live models.
His journey as an artist as well as his personal history starts in Florence. His style then develops space on long sejourns abroad in the most important cities of the world through sculpture, painting, and works of mixed media.
Particularly fertile and prolific was his 10 year stay in Paris where his creative output concentrated on commissions for important families such as Peugeot, Citroen, and Arigoni and intimate friendship with the Vadepied family and Patricio Valenzuela with whom he cooperated several years. During this vibrant urban social milieu he was surrounded by the likes of Juliet Man Ray and Olga Picabia and made contact and friends with the leading artists of his generation.
He is currently a permanent resident in the Chianti wine producing area of Tuscany which he claims is the most beautiful corner of the world. In part, this fortunate circumstance is due to the graciousness of his benefactors Ambrogio e Giovanna Folonari as well as a fruitful and reciprocally productive relationship with the Macina of San Cresci. In his new and luminous studio on the luxurient grounds of the Fattoria di Zano, near the county seat of Greve in Chianti, he continues to contemplate and produce new sculpture and painting.
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