Life dances

Life Dances is the series where everything began — where the pixel pittorico first took shape, still raw, still finding itself.

Dance was a childhood dream. Before the palette knife and the pixel pittorico, there was the desire to move, to feel free in a body in motion.

At the heart of it is the tango. Not just a dance — a metaphor for life. Two people share a direction, each with their own space, entered only by invitation. In the tango, every body keeps its own autonomy — and offers it to the other. One leads, the other trusts and follows. It is built on respect, on reciprocity, on the courage to surrender without losing oneself. It holds passion and effort, connection and solitude, the joy of harmony and the difficulty of reaching it. In the embrace, the pixels merge — two bodies that touch become something neither was before.

Alongside the tango: the pizzica, ancestral and liberating, and the harvest dance — joy rising from the earth. Different rhythms, the same impulse: to be alive, together, in motion.

A series that paused — for now. But the research it opened never did.

2016, Oil on canvas, 100×100 cm

2015, Oil on canvas, 60×60 cm

2015, Oil on canvas, Tryptic, 20×60 cm

Private collection, Italy

2014, Oil on canvas, 100×120 cm

Private collection, France

2013, Oil on canvas, 70×90 cm

2013, Oil on canvas, 80×100 cm

Private collection, Italy