Palladio

Palladio acrylic compound with sand on canvas 70×100 cm | 2024

The work stands as a meditation on the memory of classical architecture, reinterpreted through a distinctly contemporary lens. Monochrome lines and surface reliefs conjure fragments of ancient knowledge, with references to elements such as domes and columns abstracted into essential symbols that transcend both time and literal narrative. Within this visual silence, architecture dissolves into pure idea, echoing the pursuit of “universal harmony” that figures like Leon Battista Alberti and Andrea Palladio considered the foundation of beauty.

Form and material, transfigured by the artist’s gesture, invite reflection on the nature of permanence and transformation: stone, plaster, and even light itself become witnesses to a timeless dialogue between past and present. The work does not aim to faithfully reproduce Palladian forms, but rather to establish a silent conversation between memory and imagination, between what remains and what transforms—evoking both the “ideal city” envisioned by the Renaissance and reinterpreted by contemporary architecture through figures such as Carlo Scarpa or Peter Zumthor.

In this rarefied dimension, architecture becomes thought, aspiration, archetype: a constant striving toward a universal aesthetic, where the classical is not mere nostalgia but a living material for the creation of new languages.