This gallery contains works done at the beginning of my pictorial activity. These works were realized both in Cividale del Friuli, where during the fifties I used to hang around with the numerous painters living in that small town, and in Mogadishu (Somalia), where in the first half of the sixties I spent my late teens continuing my stylistic research.
These works, painted in Cividale del Friuli, already show a deep attraction for subjects made of, or representable by, intricacies, ramifications, tangs of lines: bushes, brambles, trees and branches, fishing nets, leafless vines, dry stone walls …
“alberi”, 1959, acquarello, cm. 70 x 50
“rovo”, 1959, olio su tela, cm. 51×71
“Grado”, 1959, olio su cartone, cm. 35 x 46
“boschetto”, 1958-9, olio su tela, cm. 50 x 35
“vigna e muro”, 1958-9, olio su cartone, cm. 25 x 35.5
Drawings, studies, paintings done in Mogadishu in which the graphic and pictorial research covers all the usual subjects of painting – human figure, portrait, nude, landscape, still life – but the interest in tangles of bushes, which widely populate the Somali brush, remains and, indeed, grows larger.
“carogna”, 1961-2, carboncino e gesso, cm. 34 x 47.5
“Afgoi”, 1963, acquarello, cm. 19 x 24
“Afgoi”, 1962, china, cm. 34 x 62
“M.”, 1963, china, cm. 43 x 66.5
“boscaglia”, 1962, olio su tela, cm. 20 x 30
“L.”, 1963, olio su tela, cm. 57 x 39