Sportiello - Sans titre

I am a visual artist and painter, trained at the School of Fine Arts and a former journalist for the print press. My work is based on graphic improvisation, the fusion of line and color. My aesthetics trace a lineage that spans prehistoric art, street art, and comic art, through Surrealism, the 1980s free figuration, 14th-century painting, Hieronymus Bosch, Picasso and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Anchored 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 a posteriori, like a labyrinthine work in progress, a kaleidoscope of signs, archetypes and universal symbols, but also in the current events of the world as it unfolds, interwoven with scraps of autobiography and nods to the history of art. Marker, acrylic, and Chinese ink on paper-canvas, delivered unframed.