3. Autonomy
AUTONOMY is the third chapter of the comic We Want Everything based on the book of the same name by Nanni Ballerini. Beginning this chapter we briefly see the struggles and strikes all the previous days before that Thursday, 29 May (a day narrated in the previous chapter, THE STRUGGLE.)... More detail
Sebastian
This work is consisted of two paintings. The left one is based on the work St. Sebastian (1480) by Andrea Mantegna -while the other is based on the landscape of Gaza (in Palestine). In the first painting at the left the human figure of the saint is replaced with a mannequin. At the background... More detail
Altai -Colored
This is a series of colored illustrations for the book Altai by Wu Ming. These images were based on the sketches I had made several years before (and you can see them here, along with more details about the book). There are two versions of each image, the initial result of the coloring process... More detail
for a breath of freedom
The "for a breath of freedom" was initially written in the autumn of 2014, during hunger strike of N. Romanos and was completed about a year later (early October 2015). It is evident that the struggle of Romanos, alongside with the prisoners’ hunger strike in the spring of ‘15 played a key role in... More detail
The death of William George Allum
This comic was inspired by the poems of a greek poet Nikos Kavvadias, and especially the two poems called "William George Allum" and "Marabu". Unfortunately i haven't found any english translations of these two poems (you can find some other translations in this link). I will try and give a... More detail
Revolution Blues
This painting was designed at the same period with the Hunt and shares with it some same concepts and symbols... There is a huge reference to the works with mannequins of several mostly surrealist painters (and especially the ones of Nikos... More detail
Size
This is an animation where a young man is forced to work more and more by a gigantic figure until at one point he realizes there is something peculiar at the difference of their size. Festivals Size was chosen to be presented (amongst other digital works) at the Video Art Festival in... More detail
Rider's song
This comic is an interpretation of one of Federico Garcia Lorca's poems with the name Rider's song (or Horseman's song -Canción del jinete). The original poem is the following: Córdoba. Lejana y sola.Jaca negra, luna grande,aceitunas en mi alforja.Aunque sepa los caminos,yo nunca llegaré a... More detail
The Slave Ship
This work is a reproduction of the painting The Slave Ship, by J.W. Turner (1840) (you can read more about the original painting here). As I haven't seen this particular painting live, I relied on photos I found on the internet in order to complete this copy. Unfortunately there were many... More detail
Ano Syros
This is one of the landscapes I made using a pseudocubic technic. I was inspired by the view of the village Ano Syros in the island Syros of Cyclades (Greece), which is highly geometrical. Of course, this is no exact representation of the view. {gallery}paintings/landscapes/ano-syros{/gallery} More detail
The Hunt
Among the themes (or influences) behind this painting one could find chess, paintings with mannequins (like the works of G. De Chirico or N. Engonopoulos), the painting Garden of Earthly Delights (by Hieronymus Bosch), prisons, class struggle, demonstrations, graffiti and slogans on... More detail
Ellie and the monster
These are some illustrations i made for a child book (by George Gouzounis) that was published in Australia by the Greek Community. The outline of this short story goes like this: A young girl (Ellie) returns home one day from school and finds a small monster in her room. However she doesn't... More detail
Let us Describe
This short comic is based on the short poem Let us Describe by Gertrude Stein. This poem is one of the most descriptive ones (even though it ends with a more stein-ish manner). The poem's text is the following :   Let us describe how they went. It was a very windy night and the... More detail
Journey in the sky
This is a comic about young Leonardo da Vinci and his struggle to create a flying machine and fly. The story is based on an earlier short novel which was divided into two parts: one with an interior monologue (the thoughts of Leonardo) and one with a more “objective” narrative technique completing... More detail
Study Yellow Blue
A study playing with forms and four colors. This painting has a similar approach with the one called Study in Pink. Some dark outlines at the upper segment of the painting were not photographed correctly. I have included a picture in the gallery that shows the procedure i followed making this... More detail
Van Gogh Copies
Copies of paintings by Vincent van Gogh. The paintings are La méridienne, also known as La sieste, d'aprés Millet was painted from December 1889 - January 1890 (info http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/1389660699/), Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889) (info... More detail
Umberto Eco
A caricature of the Italian writer Umberto Eco. In the gallery below you can see a realistic portrait (of him at a younger age), fast drafts, more finished sketches and the final colored image.    The final image was published in high resolution in my patreon... More detail
Italo Calvino
A caricature of the writer Italo Calvino. In the gallery below you can see a realistic portrait, fast drafts (I had a hard time reaching a satisfying result), more finished sketches and the final colored image.   The final image was published in high resolution in my patreon... More detail
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"My Lord,

you ask for my sketches as a friend

but you will use them

as a King"

from my new comic "Leonardo: The dream and the Nightmare" (temporary title)

  • 1. The North

    "The North" is the first chapter of the comic "We want everything" based on the book of the same name by Nani Ballestrini. The comic does not follow the book literally: Here the first chapter does not correspond to the book's homonymous chapter, but it is a summary of the chapters "South" and... More detail
    1. The North
  • 2. The Struggle

    The Struggle is the second chapter of the comic We Want Everything based on the book of the same name by Nanni Ballerini (you can see the first chapter, the North, here). In this chapter we watch the first days of the hero in FIAT, his fierce relationship with the hierarchy (foremen,... More detail
    2. The Struggle
  • 3. Autonomy

    AUTONOMY is the third chapter of the comic We Want Everything based on the book of the same name by Nanni Ballerini. Beginning this chapter we briefly see the struggles and strikes all the previous days before that Thursday, 29 May (a day narrated in the previous chapter, THE STRUGGLE.)... More detail
    3. Autonomy
  • 4. The Assembly

    THE ASSEMBLY is the forth chapter of the comic We want everything based on the book by Nani Ballestrini. In this chapter, we see the assembly (assemblea) of FIAT workers and ​​university students at the weekend and briefly the events before the big demonstration on July 3, 1969 (which will... More detail
    4. The Assembly
  • 5. Rebellion

    REBELLION is the fifth and final chapter (without PROLOGUE and EPILOGUE) of the comic We want everything based on the book of the same name by Nani Ballerini. This chapter, as in the book, tracks the events in Turin on July 3 of '69, in what became known as the Battle of Corso Traiano (la... More detail
    5. Rebellion
  • Epilogue

    A 7th page epilogue of the comic We Want Everything, based on the book with the same name by N. Balestrini. This epilogue tries to summarize what succeeded the events in the comic and resulted in the movement of Autonomia. {gallery}comics/epilogos{/gallery} More detail
    Epilogue
  • Prologue: Albert's story

    This short story comes from Linhart Robert's book "L' ETABLI". Actually, it is the result of the combination of two separate stories of the book (relating to two separate individuals). As they describe in my opinion in a very vivid (but also brief) way the workers' lives both inside and outside... More detail
    Prologue: Albert's story

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This is a self portrait I made with letters and phrases cut by magazines and newspapers.

Published in Collage

This is not actually a collage. Its is an envelope, which I illustrated with some sketches, containing a bottle (made with paper) and a letter. It has the title "Love"

Published in Collage

This collage is perhaps one of the first I made. I like the grey colors of the background and the contrast with the foreground. 

Published in Collage

This collage connects an image of a demonstrator, a policeman threatening to shoot, the painting scream by E. Munch, and a newspaper page wrapped on a toilet paper.

Published in Collage

Art

A small collage (with some surrealistic attitude) with the title art. Some of the images belong to other works of mine.

Published in Collage

The subject of this collage is about a politician giving a speech. Behind him the image of a child playing music in the street in order to make some money. 

Published in Collage

I made this collage intending to speak about guns and violence and how this is passed onto children. I had in mind the cases of young people using violence against other children, their schoolmates etc.

Published in Collage

This is a cabinet made from a hard paper box (taken from supermarket) painted to look like a cube-building made of bricks. There is a window with bars (like a window of a prison cell). Inside the box the walls are covered with various texts. On the one side there is a small notebook (playing the role of bed) and on the other side there are some small bottles of paint (i used to use them to paint miniatures). In the centre of the room there is a metal triangle (used for christmas carols) and some small bells attached to a rope that leads back to bed and on top of it where lays a saxophone ligature.

My initial thought was to make a personal cabinet that would contain things i used to collect from my early years (so as to be more "authentic") instead of trying to fill it with some new stuff now. But then i realised that i never used to be a regular collector of any kind of things except from texts. Whenever i read a phrase from a book, a poem etc that intrigued me i used to write it down to a small notebook (like the one here in the cabinet). So i decided to cover my cabinet with a wallpaper made of some of these texts. Another habbit i used to have as a boy was to "collect" miniature armies (mostly medieval) not as a collector but for the joy of painting them and play with them afterwards. Unfortunately i didn't have some of these figures with me, but i had my paints so there they were, (also to symbolise my interest in painting). Finally this last year i developed an interest in music (saxophone) and started to collect strange (small, cheap) stuff for making self made percursion instruments (like a cajon) and so i had some small bells left. The triangle came to me as an idea by association to the bells (music and christmas), but also as a link to chilhood memories (represented here by the miniature paints).

The idea to transform the box into a prison cell came to me as soon as i decided to use the texts, perhaps because of a strong belief that I have that the texts I read define not only my work, but also my life in general, forming something like a boundary, a limit, a restriction... I tried to emphasize the existence of the window with the bars (that represent my small prison cell) with the use of lighting...

Published in Collage

This is a noir fotoromanzo movie produced during 2005 and 2007 but finally completed in 2010. The movie is actually made of screenshots of other famous noir films (amongst them there are "Big Sleep" (1946), "Dark Passage" (1947), "Gilda" (1946), "The Third Man" (1949), "Psycho" (1960) etc) which brings me to an awkward position to wonder whether there some legal copyright issues that should prevent me from showing the film. I'm not a big fan of copyright issues in general but anyhow I must that this film was not made in order to gain profit by any means.

The film watches a detective (the main hero) as he tries to find his way inside a mysterious case with murders, thefts, police corruption, femme fatales etc. Its duration is approximately 13 min.

Unfortunately, the initial size of the uncompressed film was over 2 Gb so i decreased its quality quite heavily with an flv format and a 30 Mb result. In my opinion, apart from some transitions the overall outcome is quite satisfying.

I have embedded the movie (from my channel in youtube) for maintenance reasons which may have resulted to some small problems in the sound synchronisation.

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We Want Everything

the publications of colleagues, Nov. 2021

Summer of 1969, Italy. A year after May '68, FIAT workers began a dynamic and unmediated strike against their powerful boss. Their struggle marked the beginning of a decade of workers' and students' mobilizations and the rise of the Autonomy movement. It was characterized by many as the last invasion of the working class into the sky. Last ... let's hope until the next one ...

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