Three kids are beating each other in Cape Canaveral while, in the background, the Space Shuttle is launched. The violence of the kids is the same that’s fueling the technology behind the Space Shuttle.
This painting is part of a series about hooliganism. The series itself is conceived asa group of fragments of a huge composition depicting a portion of a soccer stadium during a hooligans battle which i have never completed.
Actaeon died killed by his own dogs after seeing Artemis, the Goddess of Hunting and Wilderness.
The ancient greek tale tells us that the world we think we are in control of, can revolt against us.
This is a video in which I finalized a 3D model prepared for a series of paintings into a virtual sculpture in grey marble and bronze inside a red marble niche.
The music wants to underline the feeling of loss and oblivion about the concept of “hubris” that seems to be almost completely lost in our days.
This is a digital rendering of the 3D model prepared for the large painting of the same name.
Mishima died doing Seppuku and one of his friends, following the japanese ritual, beheaded the poet.
In this work the head is seen as floating in air while the blood spurs incessantley from his neck.
This video is part of a large cycle of works i’m intending to work on for the next few years as companion of the one I’m completing about the figure of the Italian Poet Pier Paolo Pasolini which shared many things in common with Mishima.