Michelangelo Toffetti - La violinista innamorata

Michelangelo Toffetti, after obtaining the middle school diploma in 1991, learns his first artistic techniques in the Bergamasque workshop in Fornovo San Giovanni belonging to his father Mario Toffetti, known as “the sculptor of the Popes,” who was active in Cremonese churches and later in Rome and the Vatican. The young Michelangelo moves in an environment essential for learning sculptural techniques: blocking, pinning, enlargement, finishing, smoothing, and polishing with grinders or sandpaper. He also practices modeling with clay and plastiline (terracotta) for creating preparatory sketches. Molding through silicone rubber molds for producing the wax positive of the work, a necessary step for bronze casting (lost-wax casting).

In interior work, he creates freestanding decorative architectural elements made of wooden beams (load-bearing) bound with frayed Manila rope, a straw-like material soaked in plaster.

In the summer of 1995 he begins his painterly exploration, starting from figurative work and then developing into abstract paintings, archaic and mythological faces with a material technique. In 2005 he develops lines and dynamics that are futurist.

In 2014 he is awarded as Italian excellence at Franco Nuschese’s Milano Café in Washington.

La Violinista innamorata is a modern/figurative painting of the new artistic period dedicated to music—new style, new color combinations that describe his nature as a sculptor in his painting.

The client, after payment for the artwork, will receive within a few days the certificate of authenticity of the painting in PDF via the email address provided.

The painting will be accompanied by the certificate of authenticity.