«In the shadow I seek the form of the human, between veiled realities and hidden truths.»
I paint under the name Oltreombra, originally Ombra: as a teenager on walls at night, today on canvas. A near-death experience, in a country where I was a stranger, led me to want to build an archive of images, and from there came the name Oltreombra. I trained with masters Alberto Parres and Kano Tatsunori and along an itinerant path, Marseille, Paris, Bologna, Rome, now Milan, that keeps shaping the colors and forms of my painting. Six group shows and four solo shows between 2018 and 2022, then a pause from exhibitions to let the research mature without ever stopping painting: around forty works a year, in the studio, at night. Among my series: Ritratti d’ignoti, Blu Affondo, Murales, Flags.
Before I was Oltreombra, I was only Ombra. As a teenager I hid at night to paint on walls: I wanted to be like those mysterious figures who colored the stations. As a child I once asked my father who made those paintings; he told me, “They’re vandals, they come at night and deface everything without permission.”
I grew up traveling, and every city I passed through left something behind: Urbino, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, where Renaissance iconography mixed with Provençal color and the bold mark of street art, and where I found my first crew of writers.
Then, in Paris, something changed. The longer I stayed, the more I fell in love with painting on canvas: I was drawn to the idea of preserving a work, after so many murals vandalized or painted over. The theme of memory arrived there too, through a near-death experience in a country where I was considered a foreigner. When I came to, it was clear to me that I wanted to build an archive of images, and give something back to whoever had saved me. From that moment I became Oltreombra: a play on words to avoid naming the light I had glimpsed.
I kept training alongside two masters, Alberto Parres and Kano Tatsunori, who helped me understand technique and explore the mark, while Bologna and Rome kept shaping the way I paint. Under the name Oltreombra I took part in six group shows and four solo shows between 2018 and 2022.
Since 2022 I’ve slowed the exhibitions, but not the work: I needed a more complete idea to mature before showing it. I’ve painted around forty works a year since then, at night, in my studio, studying what I call the anatomy of the soul. In 2025 I opened the door again with the group show No Balls Game in Milan: not an ending, but the first crack through which I began to let out what I had gathered over these years.
Today I live in Milan, and I’m about to open that archive to whoever wants to look. However brief and temporary my time may be against the vastness of time itself, I remain tied to the world’s memory like a thread to a rope.
Selected exhibitions
- 2025 — No Balls Game, group show, Milan
- 2022 — Le Parche Clementi, solo show, Piandimeleto (Castello dei Conti Oliva)
- 2021 — Ospiti Ignoti, solo show, Monfalcone (NAO)
- 2021 — IODIO collective, Bologna (DAS)
- 2020 — Le Parche Clementi, solo show, Monfalcone (Bar Carducci)
- 2019 — solo show, Rome (Enoteca Trimani)
- 2018 — Ultracorpi, group show, Genoa
- 2018 — Parapluie, group show, Athens
- 2018 — permanent mural, Monfalcone (San Polo Hospital, under the patronage of UNICEF and Lions)
Main series: Ritratti d’ignoti · Blu Affondo · Murales · Flags
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