Sportiello - Joie d'août

I am a visual artist-painter, educated at the School of Fine Arts and a former journalist for print media. My creative process is based on graphic improvisation, the fusion of line and color.
My aesthetics align with a lineage that spans prehistoric art, street art, and comics, passing through surrealism, the 1980s figurative movement, painting of the 14th century, Hieronymus Bosch, Picasso, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Rooted in drawing, my work develops as a form of spontaneous art made of colorful, chaotic images, mirrors of the world and of my own imagination. Meaning and structure emerge afterward, like a labyrinthine work in progress, a kaleidoscope of signs drawn from archetypes, universal symbols, but also from current world events as they unfold, nested in fragments of autobiography and winks to the history of art.
This canvas will be shipped with its frame (an American crate in magenta-red).