My artistic method stands for a kaleidoscope of reverberations, reminiscences that peek through the optics of modernity, allusions to classical themes and genres conveyed through the prism of my interpretations.
An endless summer afternoon is filled with the phantasmic reality that reveals itself only when it meets its observer. It may be a reference to Julian Barnes’s Portrait of a Man in Red, where the image of Dr. Pozzi is painted by Sargent’s brush and the author’s word. Or it is perhaps a quote from Henri Murger’s Scenes of Bohemian Life, where young recklessness and liberty confronted gray ordinariness. A poetic manifesto to the feeling that summer will never end and life is as ephemeral as cigarette smoke.
With this portrait, I do not want to make a direct reference to any particular work, but to act in oscillation: at the same time intimate and estranged, pragmatic and romantic, spiritual and vain. Only in the eyes of the spectator will this work find its true meaning.