Coordinates: 49°17′40″N 2°34′20″E
Documented: September 2023
Title: Displacement / Renewal
In recent years, the subject of my painting practice is mainly landscape, not told in its entirety, but in detail. Branches, roots, tree trunks, ruins, stones, rocks, water, elements that tell of a past life and of something that through painting is reborn. It is not mere description of the landscape but becomes itself the subject and at the same time a means of research, investigating it even in three-dimensional forms and through large woodcut compositions on wood. The artist’s eye is nomadic, catching in the landscape the best place to investigate the pictorial medium and go beyond it. Through the woodcut printing technique I can endlessly render the chosen detail and always give it a new semblance, through the different positioning of the printed forms. Large compositions, such as landscape, are fragmented, composed, dense with forms and meanings that are renewed….but only if we really feel free.