Lo Stregone

Dagàr the scholar, the Sorcerer of a dark age, where knowledge was the only way to maintain human integrity and the strength of his spirit, dissipated over time by frivolity and self-indulgence. The Sorcerer is part of a series of paintings that I conceived to tell stories, and that I presented at my first solo exhibition. I wanted to create something powerful, suggestive, enveloping, where the subjects emerged from a dense darkness, to create an occult (in the sense of hidden) and evocative atmosphere. The viewer's mind is pushed to reconstruct what is not there, stimulated to imagine what is not known. I played a lot with colors, and with lights, made vibrant by the great potential of pastels, which I love so much and which allow great strength of color, made even more brilliant by the contrast with the darkness.