MAD ABOUT OPHELIA

LA DONNA CANNONE, 205 x 290 mm,  pencil and oil wash on prepared paper, 2013 — LA DONNA CANNONE, 205 x 290 mm, pencil and oil wash on prepared paper, 2013

MAD about ophelia

The series centres around the figure of Ophelia, refiguring Ophelia through the metaphoric flowerlike sketches which oscillate between doodles and spatial mark-making meanderings, trying to discover Laertes’ description of the Ophelian archetype, as the “document in madness”.

CERTEZZA NECESSARIA E SUFFICIENTE, 205 x 290 mm,  pencil and oil wash on prepared paper, 2014 — CERTEZZA NECESSARIA E SUFFICIENTE, 205 x 290 mm, pencil and oil wash on prepared paper, 2014

UNTITLED NO. 3, 282 x 195 mm,  pencil and oil wash on prepared paper, 2015. Private Collection. — UNTITLED NO. 3, 282 x 195 mm, pencil and oil wash on prepared paper, 2015. Private Collection.

OPHELIA FADING, 297 x 210 mm,  pencil, charcoal and oil wash on prepared paper, 2016. — OPHELIA FADING, 297 x 210 mm, pencil, charcoal and oil wash on prepared paper, 2016.