I started this creative journey inspired by one of the painters I love most: Joan Mirò. This is because I have always appreciated visual synthesis in general and with Mirò in particular. I understood that with a few abstract lines and a chromatism made of a few basic colors it is possible to draw everything. These birds, for example, are simple but their wings and eyes are not where you expect them and so each bird is always different from one another. A play of colours and stains that reaches the heart and which become unique pieces with a strong personality.

I have already drawn robots other times and each time I tried to be credible, that is, I asked myself, can they exist as I draw them? Are they real enough? Now I gained courage and wanted to try to put some abstract magic into these robot drawings. No abstruse mechanisms or complicated mechanical elements. I said: long live the imagination, I’m a painter and everything was easier, more beautiful, more spontaneous. These robots turned out to be alive, cheerful, ready to decorate walls, objects and anything that has imagination as its minimum denominator.

Thinking about Mirò I learned that the extreme simplicity of the lines, made up of its own and easily recognizable paths, makes these drawings go from simple to complex at the same time. This is because I avoided symmetry, parallels, an easy to understand order. For example, I made different eyes, I eliminated typical elements of symmetry and I understood that the beauty of these drawings lies in seeing what is not there but which the mind can imagine.

Since I was little, in my part of the mountains, I learned to respect bears. I imagined them large, terrible and I tried to draw them in their might and ruggedness. Then cartoons arrived and I realized that they can also be nice, sweet, kind. This is how I would like my bears to be: tender spots of colour, ready to play with me and those who love the kindness of a smile.

It seems counterintuitive to see penguins that have always been depicted as black and white instead covered in spots of colour. Few stains but enough to undermine a myth, and thus they also seem more fun, cheerful. I can already see them moving on the snow where every spot of colour seems to get bigger amidst so much white. Where do they go, what do they do? I don’t know but they could certainly decorate a wall, a pillow, a cup and stop being the usual boring black and white penguins.

In reality, this was the line from which everything started. My desire for Mirò was born with these drawings made like this, spontaneously. At the time I didn’t know how much Miro I had in me. After so many years of realistic drawings, with so many themes to talk about, I was finally able to say nothing. What’s the point if a few signs and spots of colour are enough to decorate a room? To add a cheerful note to a wall? I don’t know but if there’s nothing to say or understand, isn’t that better? The freedom to have a free mind. And in any case, does it matter to know the meaning if looking at it makes you feel good? Not for me if it was a pleasure to do it in complete freedom and without constraints.

Dogs are really different from each other. Every time I drew them I was able to see the great difference that exists between race and race, much more than between us human beings. This already determines a normal differentiation of the works but also allowed me to vary styles and ways of creating: spots and lines, abstract geometrics, with contours, without contours. It was as if the already existing differentiation stimulated even greater differentiation between the styles. There is no logic in this and if you make art you understands that every time a rule is created you just want to not respect it. But I leave it up to you to judge whether I succeeded.

Strangely, rabbits are not graphically appealing animals in terms of shape and expressions but it may be for this reason, because I am highly contradictory, that I really love how these rabbits came about or perhaps because I love difficult challenges. The more I look at these rabbits, the more I realize that I really like them and that they work well for decorating, making ceramics and anything three-dimensional. It’s not that I want to compliment myself but this style really goes well with the lines of the rabbit. I truly believe it.

Can tin cans, like sardines, come to life? I couldn’t believe my eyes while character after character from my mind to reality took on the forms of animals or humanoids or very nice and lively robots. And it was as if they were talking to me to thank me for existing. Now they are there on my sheet, together with the dust and rust that I liked to add to feel the time that has passed for them too. In fact, thinking about these characters took me back in time, when little was enough to play, even just an old abandoned tin box and now it’s there greeting me.