Than all change… everything!  In general the results and success of the International Painting Symposium overcome in much my expectations, a fact that cause new and important requirements and conditions needed for the continuous and success of the institution.   My personal expectations were and are still undefined. Today, after 12 years I can’t say something about personal expectations… I don’t know… The subject with the International Painting Symposium is elastic… but I never expected anything more and actually happened… a big international workshop of art with an amazing communication… and creation. The coexistence of the different!  I think the communication between diversities it’s a bigger pleaser than the best wine!

I started 1999 approaching art with purely philosophical intention. Art is replacing philosophy and an artist replace philosopher.  I love an artwork when it surprises me and when it gave me answers to something I didn’t ask.  The philosophic researches and life itself indicated and proofed to me that art is the end and the beginning of everything…

My preference in Painting is to meet soul and honesty on the canvas.  Everyday something changes… every year… every decade!  I return to all I loved at first and sometimes I travel to somewhere i didn’t love yet  Every Artwork enchants me… but not all is art.  Every artwork that I consider important I perceive it like a love affair, of course it change me and adds in my character and my emotional world. Thousand artworks were created in front of my eyes and for sure some of them may remain unforgettable.

I believe that art is something that comes uninvited in your mind, your heart, your memory and in your life.  Yes! I remember every detail of all the artworks that I loved… I will remember them forever!  I don’t want to talk about art, because it constantly refutes me.  I know how the first scripture was for the human kind. The primary need for the first human.  The other forms of scripture followed after thousand years. Art was the beginning and the occasion for all things. What will the history of human kind be without art? What would life be… Would there be life?  The artworks on the caves from the prehistoric period are modern and important. The tradition begins millions of years ago.

The artists lived with terms and doctrines for many periods of the history. But I believe that art is not conscripted and don’t follow the rules. The language of art has for sure grammar and syntax… but I can’t consider it as a term… the knowledge is necessary. The talent is innate, grammar can be learned… No, art doesn’t obey and have no limits… it wouldn’t be art!  The leadership and postmodern art may surprise or shock a viewer but this is an important part of art, to awake and revolutionize the viewer, even if it shocks them.  Sure, many call themselves artists…  There is nothing worse than a bad artwork…