Ritorno alle Origini was born on the occasion of an exhibition organized by artists from my town of origin, Bagnara Calabra. And due to its meaning I wanted to participate in a selection, with a positive outcome, for a collective exhibition held in Matera in April 2019, with the theme ^To the roots of humanity^. The work aims to draw attention to the "centrality of the human being" in relation to his intimate nature, which he can only rediscover through a return to his origins. Man re-establishes contact and alliance with the nature that surrounds him. A vital alliance as children, which as they grow becomes increasingly looser until it almost breaks. And then man, increasingly alienated, feels, albeit subtly, the echo of that faithful nature that calls him back to himself, to his profound origins. He seeks it to play with it again, to cradle it and make it dance with its leaves and branches, delight it with its perfumes and essences and listen to it in his wounded soul. And in the eyes of man, nature becomes the inspirational source for creating his works. For me, no art: from painting to sculpture, photography, music and arts in general, can do without this contact. In this regard, I like to imagine the eyes of the young Leonardo Da Vinci carefully observing the flight of birds and then inventing his talents in the design and construction of flying machines or the heated soul of Giacomo Leopardi in front of the Ginestra for his penultimate lyric, or the fantastic Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, fruit of the artist's imagination mixed with nature.
