FLAVIO PETRICCA

I studied and study art history and the most varied artistic techniques, trying everything and experimenting since I was a child. In all the phases of my growth, from the frescoes to the portraits, from the landscapes to the installations, the material returns continuously , in an almost obsessive way, more and more pronounced; in a sort of ritual for overcoming one's own forms of anxiety, that those disturbing objects have cast in me -as they appeared in my imagination as a child- , now I try to make them physically, up to touch them.

Were they really nightmares? this is how my "Tactile Shadows" were born This is my soul. But if I have to say why I decided to do it as a professional, I would answer by saying: just because everyone always told me "you can’t make a living with art" . On the contrary, creating and making artworks, I discovered the joy of being me, in the world.

Soap, silicones, stones, sprays, stencils, bronze, cement, wood, crystal glass mirrors, baroque, liberty, eclectic, fur, leather, latex plastics venus icons fetishes sensuality seduction study form tactility fluidity game contamination life proliferation wonder lightness wonder wonder interaction specificity possibility in not being, freeing oneself, chasing each other, walking slowly, imagination that observes, that calls. Fight.

Cross the threshold of a room of wonders. Traveling the world by acquiring memories and traditions through the artifacts that convey its contents, and then reliving the experience through iconic objects such as souvenirs, whether precious or knick-knacks of little value, is one of the most romantic attitudes we have towards travel