Fine Art nominee

The main concept of this series of photographs is the face of the human being. The face becomes a mask that covers other masks or even nothing. Once this mask is removed, one is faceless, like a wooden mannequin without identity and personality. It was precisely the reflection on the Latin concept of "persōna", or masked character, that reminded me that we are all actors on the stage of life, and we are forced to wear different masks every day depending on who we are facing. Inspired by De Chirico I portrayed a planed, almost woody face under these masks to show the mannequin, the automaton, which is under our apparent personality. The longer we wear the mask, the more difficult it becomes to remove it.

Born in Biella ( Italy ) in 1976, he graduated in economics in Milan and for more than 10 years worked in the financial sector.In 2012 he totally changes his lifestyle and decides to reinvent himself as a photographer. He studies as a self-taught and approaches first commercial photography and then fine art. His deep passion for folklore helps him to create suggestive and surreal images that immediately find support in the publishing market. He has many national and international book covers to his credit. / A collective exhibition in Crescentino (VC) in 2019 /