The Flight of the Albatross

This body of work explores the tension between movement and belonging, between mapping and memory. Inspired by cartographic abstraction and spatial deconstruction, The Flight of the Albatross investigates how landscapes—both physical and mental—are fragmented and reassembled through perception. The compositions oscillate between structure and dissolution, evoking the instability of orientation and the subjectivity of place. Through a process of reduction and layering, the works function as visual traces of passage, questioning the permanence of geographical and emotional coordinates.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work explores the relationship between abstraction and perception, distance and memory. While I initially engage with the city’s structure as a compositional pretext, my gaze is never objective—it is filtered through the sensory urgency that drives my pictorial process.

In the early stages, I use black to trace shadows, following the urban morphology as a structural foundation. However, this grid is merely a starting point: as the painting develops, the reference to Google Maps dissolves, and instinct takes over in shaping the pictorial space. The city becomes a visual code, a framework from which I gradually detach to embrace a deeper, more personal language.

The identification with the albatross is not just a literary metaphor, nor an assertion of artistic isolation. It is a visual condition—a gaze from above, distant yet engaged, oscillating between the recognizable and the elusive. Abstraction is not the ultimate goal but rather a necessity to translate the tension between structure and instinct, between mapping and sensitivity.

What I seek is balance: harmony and rhythm. Not representation, but resonance.

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Domenico De Chirico – Testo curatoriale mostra “Via da Qui”

Giovanni Di Iacovo – Introduzione al catalogo “Via da Qui”

Marcella Malagetti – Testo curatoriale mostra “Il Volo dell’Albatros”