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above Genova in multivision, 2008, oil and
acrilic on two canvas, cm 50x150
A panorama of the Porto Antico (Ancient Harbour) and the skyline of the city,
made by multiple points of view, in horizontal and in vertical, to point out the
architectural peculiarities by a hypo-cubist prospective technique.
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Gardens & Forests, 2002, water-colour cm 28x31,5
Subject employed by the Antica Manifattura Toscana to produce furnishing cloths
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Trinità dei Monti
2005, oil, acrylic and gold, cm 70x100
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Nature, imagined or lived in the first person, is a recurring theme and one
particularly felt by the Author, who, quoting Baudelaire, "...moves
forward among forests of symbols".
They are the symbols of a utopia where the presence of mankind is not in
contrast with the environment, where manufactures melt with nature, cloths have
the value of gardens, anthropomorphic landscapes look like precious treasures.
So, in the Artist's imagination, towns, castles, churches, even road signs,
become objects well imbedded in an uncontaminated environment.
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Future Town
1992
oil on canvas, cm 100x100
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Already in 1992 the author, prefiguring a "Future town" of his own,
rejected the idea of an ultimate synthetic Manhattan, proposing on the
contrary, a backward escape. The buildings are in Giotto's style as in the
Arezzo of St. Francis, but plunged in a forest of road-sign trees that have the
same value inside and outside the walls, borrowed from Guell's Park by
Gaudì.
A future town according to the Author wishes and not how, perhaps, it will be.
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The fire garden,
2006
water-colour, cm 36x24
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Pilgrimage to Mont Sainte Victoire,
2006
water-colour, cm 28x25, and acrylic on canvas, cm 100x100
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Portofino in an amber sea,
2006
oil and acrylic on canvas, cm 30x80
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Allusions and sensorial impressions suggested by Cezanne's mountain, near Aix
en Provence, that he painted in an obsessive manner, and here visited on
occasion of the centennial of Cezanne's death. Bixio painted the opposite slope
to that one usually represented by Cezanne, to emphasize both the syntony, but
also the autonomy in respect to the French master.
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Landscapes are sites of memory where grand sceneries are combined with objects
and suggestions that can surface from the unconscious, even after a long time,
interlacing remnants from the past with today's cultures.
The artist's experiences in places strongly permeated by historical events,
mainly in the Near East, come to the surface with strength.
He has been organizing for many years archaeological expeditions in Central and
Eastern Anatolia, looking for underground settlements and studying the
civilizations that have produced them, about which he has written various
publications.
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Ceneviz kulesi, 2005
oil and acrylic on canvas, cm 60x60
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The Genoeses' Tower, or Galata Tower, in Istanbul. It comes out from ancient
cloths of Ottoman production, conserved in the local ethnographic museum. It
hints at the bond of the Genoeses (both collective and personal) with the
Turkish land.
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Ararat, 2001
water-colour,cm 28x28
The imposing volcanic cone draped with a nomads' length of cloth.
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Sunset in Uchisar, 1998
water-colour and gold, cm 45x30
Landscape of Cappadocia (Central Turkey), a melting pot of civilizations.
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The three doors of Jerusalem, 2000
china ink, photocopied and coloured, cm 20x20
Three religious cultures in the same place
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Meteore, 1996
water-colour and gold, cm 35x35
A Thessalian site (Greece) where the monasteries surface like appendices from
the stone towers.
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One evening at Porta Soprana (Portoria, Genoa)
2000
water-colour, cm 28x28
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The walls that enclosed Genoa in the XVI century are here allegorically
reconstructed, beginning from one of the still existent gates, assembling
ceramic fragments really found during the archaeological excavations performed
in town by the Archaeological Service. Evident the reference to Gaudì.
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below on the left
Vanished Ripa Maris, 2006 (Sottoripa, Genoa)
Oil and acrylic on canvas, cm 60x60
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In the palace line also the buildings destroyed by the bombings are represented
(without windows), today replaced by the skyscraper (light-blue).
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Baroque at Badalucco
1999, water-colour and gold, cm 30x45
a lato
The new Ancient Harbour (Caricamento, Genoa)
2006, oil and acrylic on canvas, cm 60x60
Synthetic elements that characterize the ancient harbour after the remaking in
occasion of Columbus' manifestations.
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The treasure of San Fruttuoso
1996
oil and gold on canvas, cm 70x70
private collection L. Gaggiotti
Small bay of Portofino Mount, in the Ligurian Riviera, where the ancient
Doria's abbey is perceived by the author as a jewel set gently among precious
drapes that represent the steep slopes enclosed between sky and sea.
The subject has been realized by oil, water-colours, china ink and serigaphy.
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The treasure of San Fruttuoso
1997
china ink, cm 35x35
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Bright colourings and perspectives strongly characterized, are combined with
historical notations, with oneiric and symbolic elements, but with playful
intentions, too.
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Salzsburg
2006
oil and acrylic on canvas, cm 60x60
Subject utilized for the scenography of Club UNESCO concert in Genoa, on
occasion of the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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