The Progress

The execution of this work is both an arrival and a re-start.
It has been a synergistic construction that started from an original idea and then enlisted the cooperation of friend-artists who have been able to perfectly interpret the detail to contribute in their specific spheres to the typical themes as in the time of the Great Clients, the Benefactors: in other words the work is an artistic collaboration.
The work was ordered by the Management of an important hotel unit in Brussels, Belgium, and has Progress as its subject.
Five panels were conceived with each one containing elements that refer to a stage in the history of progress in its relationship of Man-Nature, from the beginning of the history of the world until our time and even beyond.
Each panel holds signs and materials that compose a work of art in itself but all of them together explain the development of events. Each image is accompanied by a sheet that explains materials and motives.

Final considerations
The execution of the 5 panels on the subject “PROGRESS” and the final result were a continuous surprise also for me. The leading idea took shape immediately in my imagination; the history of the evolution of the life of man and the environment to be told with a few images struck me with deep emotion and was the most important experience of my professional career.
I could have carried out my concept through painting only, but I wanted to look for a means to ideally accomplish my goal: I wanted to involve as many human senses as possible in the tale that this work represents.
My job was interpreting the life lesson that comes from time, history, and culture and that can be handed down to future generations, while taking care to not neglect the poetic aspect of living in this stage of epochal change.
I tried to make evident the themes common to men at every latitude because I am certain that I have a lot in common with persons I do not even know, who however share with me the history of time.
I selected the most different and unusual materials and this choice became during my work more and more normal, as if I had to find expressive methods that were known but abandoned.
The emotion of moving forward in the discovery of these materials that were new to me dissolved then into a larger and larger awareness of not creating something but of being the interpreter of the meaning of things when they are in proximity to each other and harmonize.
The synthesis is the essence of these days, the speed that gives advantages but takes away details from life and justifies the most paradoxical choices: art - witness and guard of time – more and more suffers this “abrasive” effect of speed; I wanted to try and look, not only see, what has remained of the ability to get excited in rediscovering those details that in most cases contain the meaning of existence.
I heartily thank those who decided to give me the opportunity of expressing this concept and hope I shall be able to share the verification of ideas in the future.