Sportiello - The Lovers

I am a visual artist and painter, a graduate of the School of Fine Arts and a former journalist for print media. My work is based on graphic improvisation, the fusion of line and color. My aesthetics trace a lineage that spans from prehistoric art, street art, and comics, through surrealism, the 1980s nouveau figuratif (free figuration), 14th‑century painting, Hieronymus Bosch, Picasso, and Jean‑Michel Basquiat. Rooted in drawing, my work develops as a form of spontaneous art made of colorful and chaotic images, mirrors of the world and of my own imagination. Meaning and structure emerge retrospectively, like a labyrinthine “work in progress,” a kaleidoscope of signs drawn from archetypes, universal symbols, but also from the world’s current events as it unfolds, embedded in fragments of autobiography and winks to art history. This painting will be shipped with its black frame (American crate).