Le mie ciabatte
Acrylic, Enamel on Fabric
59x51in
Italy
« My canvases are visions, suggestions of reality, mental dreams that materialize. My motto is, 'I paint what is silent'. »
Simone Butturini is an award-winning Italian artist whose works have been widely exhibited nationally, as well as in Austria, Germany, Canada and Switzerland. Inanimate objects are the true protagonists of his scenes in a sort of "existential realism" born in Milan in the Seventies by artists such as Gianfranco Ferroni, Giuseppe Guerreschi. Butturini, in harmony with the artists of his generation, Luca Pignatelli and Giovanni Frangi, in his "Interior Painting" is more interested in portraying the traces of man's presence and the "places of the hidden soul". His gestures translate into a progressive construction and cancellation of form in a compelling dialogue between figuration and abstraction, on the threshold of reality.