I spent my childhood in the countryside, near the banks of the great river Po, in a privileged relationship with nature, animals and the land. The silence, slowness, delicacy and harmony of the misty landscapes in the tangle of poplar groves have shaped my sensitivity.

I created my first “works” with earth, branches, flowers and stones. Animals and nature have been my main source of inspiration for many years. Taking care of plants and putting my hands in the earth is still a pleasure for me today.

I had a classical artistic education enriched by internships with artists and illustrators.

Part of my experience is collaborating with different realities: publishing, publishing illustrated books in various countries of the world; training, designing and conducting workshops for adults and children and theater.

The theater was an important encounter, I participated in various internships and workshops that enriched my path and led me to collaborate as an artist and trainer in the staging of shows for children such as “Invisible Cities” by Calvino, “Antigone” by Sophocles, “Lord of the Flies” by Golding and many others.

Another important encounter was the study and practice of Zen philosophy. Both have profoundly changed my vision of the world and art, it was an unexpected and surprising internal, intellectual and emotional evolution, which pushed me to look for a new path. The pure representation of reality had become a limit.

My steps were guided by the belief that one could always start over. This important and new VISION led me to change techniques, supports, materials and communication.

I have adopted the art name LoR and for several years my artistic research has been directed towards what I call the POETRY OF FLOWING, where there is no scream or provocation, but the need to bring harmony, to rouse emotion, to narrate the mysterious theater of life with its contradictions, its shadow lines and its flashes of light.

I have been present in several solo and group exhibitions in Italy and other countries.

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My pictorial works are mainly made on wooden panels, which I personally assemble in various shapes, on which I work with different tools and materials, such as acrylic, ink, paper, gauze, silk and cotton threads.

The thread is always present in my works; it express the connection, the bond, the necessary interconnection between things. While the gauze recalls the idea of protecting and caring.

I create pictorial and graphic works that would be reductive to define abstract, as the titles suggest they are inspired by a context, a current narrative that engages me.

There is a starting intention that gives life to a continuous dialogue between the stratification of materials, traces and my thought. It is a slow path, in creating there is no pretension or development of something planned a priori, there is the expectation of what the work reveals in taking shape, what manifests itself beyond my intention. My ability is precisely to solve the problems that the work poses me and seize them as opportunities.

Graphic traces, like threads, are an important part of the development of the artwork, I like to think of them as marks on the skin of the painting. The traces that form on our skin, like hand lines, have always fascinated me.

My works are like organisms that move, sprout, dance, everything vibrates, pulsates, everything is in the poetics of flow, in the continuous and inevitable transformation. This dynamic suggests the metaphor of the human and natural dimension, of its strength and at the same time of its fragility.

The strength of the artworks is precisely their ability to suggest, to evoke, to leave room for the thought and emotion of the beholder. I invite the viewer to get involved, to be the author in turn.

The strength of the works is precisely the ability to suggest, to evoke, to leave room for the thought and emotion of the beholder. I invite the viewer to get involved, to be the author in turn.

These works call for attention, to deepen, to understand rather than judge, they are a way to testify the questions of the present with delicacy and poetry. The intent is to bring, through art, a reflection on our being and acting in the world, a non-shouted testimony of the "wound" and of the possible healing, transfigured in poetic form.

EXHIBITIONS

2024 Group Exhibition Galleria del Carbone Ferrara

2024 Personal "Uncomfortable Position" 20th Contemporary Day promoted by AMACI Galleria Atelier LoR Ferrara

2023 Collective exhibition at Galleria del Carbone Ferrara

2023 Personal "For a narration of matter" Konnubio Florence

2023 Group Exhibition "Organic Textures" Galleria Arti<>sta Monza

2021 Group Exhibition at Spazio Arte Tolomeo Milan

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