I love nature: the sky, the sea, the land. I like to go for a walk in the woods, and breath their scent. I enjoy a lovely sunset and a starry night. I am thrilled when I see the fireflies or a small cat breastfeeding her kittens. The greem meadows make me feel good, and their flowers are a joy to my eyes. All this is a source of inspiration for my paintings.These are the emotions that I try to put into my works, following the teaching of my masters of art. Watercolour is an istinctive...
On the 9 March 2016 the second edition of ZAB ART was inaugurated. On display the works of art of the maestros of the Scuola d'Arte e dei Mestieri Nicola Zabaglia in Rome. They are passionate teachers, but also committed artists. On display the works of 21 maestros. Among them Alessandra Pasqualoni, whose painting Claudus, a big work made with pure pigments on damasc fabric (see picture), I liked very much, and Elisabetta Accoto, who presented two projects. The first one, a very original and...
World has always changed. It is a fact, however, that in the latest decades the transformation process has stepped up in a sudden way, never experienced before: new technologies contribute to change the reality, our reality, day by day. Transformation is now, more than ever, a key world in our times and lives. This is where the artistic trend called Transformers, visible in the West but even more present in Asia, Latin America and Africa: transformers are artists that seek to respond to the...
In 1948 a group of artists from Northern Europe decides to lay the foundations of an avant-garde movement named "CoBrA" after the initials of the three capitals, which they come from (Copenhagen, Bruxelles e Amsterdam). In open contrast with the academicism concomitant with regimes and the tradition of classical conventions, CoBrA takes its inspiration from the primitive art, the child's drawings and fantastic and grotesque motifs that are typical for Northern European cultures. It also...
Artist and acrobat agile and powerful at the same time, Anthony Trahair stages, with the direction of Sara Pozzoli, a comedy, surreal, and spectacular juggling show freely inspired by the Chinese savant Chuang Tzu, one of the funniest and more provocative masters of taoism. After last January's success, the show is again on stage at TEATRO FURIO CAMILLO Friday 26 FEBRUARY h 9 pm, Saturday 27 FEBRUARY h 9 pm, and Sunday 28 FEBRUARY h 6 pm We will be there on Sunday 28 February! Will you come and...
Goethe Institute in Rome, from 15 January to 16 April 2016 Monday h 2 pm - 7 pm; Tuesday - Friday h 9 am - 7 pm; Saturday h 9 am - 1 pm Free entrance Workshops for children
I am pleased to open this website publishing an article on one of the latest photo exhibitions by a well-known artist in Rome, who is also my father. Look inside by Angelo Paionni is a portfolio of pictures taken under cover, almost by chance, during a lesson of photography that took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome (MACRO), in via Nizza. The people portrayed are some of the students, who appear on both sides of the camera, in a double role of aspiring photographers and unawarely...