......but our aim is the same: relating to the world through classic proportions, applying virtuosity to semplicity. This research would have find its best expression in Vitruvio, who theorized a kind of architecture proportioned to man exemplified by the famous image of a man inscribed in a circle, the “Vitruvian man” drawn by Leonardo da Vinci. The philosopher I have supremely loved are the classic Socrate, Platone and Aristotele.

From the Renaissance theorist and architect Leon Battista Alberti I took the symbol of my studio, the winged eye, which symbolizes reason flying high. Leon Battista Alberti projects classicism in the Modern Age as a requirement to rebirth.

The last person to whom I’m in debt is the Renaissance artist Raffaello Sanzio, who presented people his refined culture and organized groups of artists with the task of measuring the ancient buildings of the classic Age in order to make an atlas with perspective drawings realized as buildings were seen by the eyes of a bird. I admired, through his drawings, the pompeian grotesquerie and those of the neronian Domus Aurea.

This is my formation and so it has all begun. I studied Architecture in Florence and graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 1990.

I painted and exhibited my masterpieces for some years, then I predominantly dedicated to tattoo but I’ve never stopped drawing  and painting. My paintings are deeply linked to tattoo and the materials I choose in my works try to evoke the surface of skin. I also create icons that come into the popular language of tattoo. I began making tattoos in 1984 but my first studio on street was in 1991.

I took part in several tattoo conventions. In 2001 I met Horiyoshi III and had my back completely tattoed by him.