About JOE e GI

My aim is to tell a story. To use oil painting in the service of the message. I look inside myself for those facts, those considerations, those intuitions that I would like other people to know and then I ask myself: what is the image that can effectively summarize what is in my mind? what is the best style to communicate it? and the title? This is how my works are born. And then I like painting a lot, all styles, everything beautiful. I like the communication that can be achieved with an image; I like the play of colours that creates light and shadow, the poetry of complements; I like the strong contrasts of direct light as well as the close-up values of objects in half-light. I like the elegance of the compositions with few colours as well as the full tone mediated by the unsaturated values. I like to do a live pose, with the company of some old painter friend telling a story, with a coffee in one hand and some jazz music in the air.