Sportiello - Paysage

I am a visual artist and painter, graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts and a former journalist for the print press. My work is based on graphic improvisation, the fusion of line and color. My aesthetics are rooted in a lineage that spans from prehistoric art, street art and comics, 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 and 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 drawn from archetypes, universal symbols, but also from the world’s current events as they unfold, embedded in fragments of autobiography and nods to art history. This painting can be shipped rolled with the stretcher bars disassembled or intact in a box.