I was born in 1971 in Turin, where I live and work as an independent artist and as an architect, collaborating with several design offices. In my artistic research I am mainly interested in the study of the languages and of their formal rules. The subjects of my study are the cartographic representation, the figures in the manuals of medicine, the sheets of the herbals with their rules for the classification of the plants, the ancient manuals that collect all the known form of real and imaginary animals, the facial expressions and physiognomy, the pornography, the structure of flags, and so on. All these are languages owning their own lexicon; my trial is to isolate and reinvent that lexicon. My preferred techniques are classic oils on canvas paintings, and pencil drawings that I paint afterwards with oil colours. In both cases the work proceeds always with the sedimentation of several layers one on the other.