Margherita

This painting originated as a deepening of the teaching received from the Simi Studio, where I studied for six years alongside many other young students from all over the world.
This School, founded in Florence by the famous painter Filadelfo Simi (1849-1923), thanks to his daughter Nerina continued until 1987, the year of her death.
Taking advantage of an exhibition of Filadelfo in Versilia, his birthplace, I had the opportunity to have free access for two weeks to the exhibition rooms.
I was able to study and observe, making small copies of details of his paintings to better understand what fascinated me so much about his art, and what I considered important to draw as a lesson to propose it in today's art.
I believe that, in addition to studying the technical quality of drawing and painting from the past, it is important to reflect on how great artists have managed to convey their poetics and their relationship with world and reality.
These portraits capture the gaze, inviting you to stop and reflect.
The viewer is transported to another reality, where time is not that of a photographic shot, but a dilated time, made up of many moments.
That intense, intelligent gaze, not devoid of tension and questions that seems to address you, is enveloped in an atmosphere of dream, harmony, balance, and peace.
Everything seems perfectly controlled, which is not the case in reality.
Time stops and your gaze remains trapped because everything is so beautiful and harmonious, even in its contrasts, that you do not want to leave.
This, for me, is the great power of art that must be preserved and transmitted to the new generations.