(Prato, 1977) currently lives and works in Pistoia, Italy. He graduated in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. In 2002 he won a scholarship at Il Giardino di Daniel Spoerri. Hic Terminus Haeret, Seggiano, Grosseto. In 2011 he was selected among the artists to exhibit at the 54th Venice Biennale, Padiglione Accademie. In 2013 he won the Special Prize at the Talent Prize. In 2016 he won the competition: Un Giardino Nuovo per Palazzo Fabroni. In 2017 he won the international competition The Spur ETACEC 16-18. In 2021 he won the PAC 2020.
Il Vello d'oro
Directly inspired by the golden mantle of Crisomallo, the winged ram that Hermes gave to Nefele. Starting from this suggestion, the artist imagines the golden fleece as a sacred element capable of healing the “wounded” “Gran Vecchio” “Great old-one” of the Bisentina Island, a centuries-old holm oak object of the work. The “mantle” is a golden sheet that reproduces the texture of the natural bark, positioned on a fiberglass structure molded on site, in direct contact with the tree, in perfect symbiosis with this and to protect it.
