Painters like Fautrier or Dubuffet employed matter as the protagonist of their works. In my case I tried to join this sense of matter with the sense of ancient classic culture. I was also interested in the poetry of the famous Italian poet Guiseppe Ungaretti , who was at that time my professor at University, who put in his poems something ancient, like an echo of Virgil or other classical poets. The story of my life as a painter is the story of my relationship with matter. Matter is for a painter the ground, which contains all the opportunities of shape, and also every weight, obscurity and confusion.
Painting is a way from going from obscurity, confusion and heaviness towards clarity and lightness.
Nevertheless we must remember that something obscure will always be kept, because our human condition is dramatically divided between darkness and light, heaviness and grace, and all the big contrasts.