3. Autonomy
AUTONOMY is the third chapter of the comic We Want Everything based on the book of the same name by Nanni Ballerini. Beginning this chapter we briefly see the struggles and strikes all the previous days before that Thursday, 29 May (a day narrated in the previous chapter, THE STRUGGLE.)... More detail
Sebastian
This work is consisted of two paintings. The left one is based on the work St. Sebastian (1480) by Andrea Mantegna -while the other is based on the landscape of Gaza (in Palestine). In the first painting at the left the human figure of the saint is replaced with a mannequin. At the background... More detail
Altai -Colored
This is a series of colored illustrations for the book Altai by Wu Ming. These images were based on the sketches I had made several years before (and you can see them here, along with more details about the book). There are two versions of each image, the initial result of the coloring process... More detail
for a breath of freedom
The "for a breath of freedom" was initially written in the autumn of 2014, during hunger strike of N. Romanos and was completed about a year later (early October 2015). It is evident that the struggle of Romanos, alongside with the prisoners’ hunger strike in the spring of ‘15 played a key role in... More detail
The death of William George Allum
This comic was inspired by the poems of a greek poet Nikos Kavvadias, and especially the two poems called "William George Allum" and "Marabu". Unfortunately i haven't found any english translations of these two poems (you can find some other translations in this link). I will try and give a... More detail
Revolution Blues
This painting was designed at the same period with the Hunt and shares with it some same concepts and symbols... There is a huge reference to the works with mannequins of several mostly surrealist painters (and especially the ones of Nikos... More detail
Size
This is an animation where a young man is forced to work more and more by a gigantic figure until at one point he realizes there is something peculiar at the difference of their size. Festivals Size was chosen to be presented (amongst other digital works) at the Video Art Festival in... More detail
Rider's song
This comic is an interpretation of one of Federico Garcia Lorca's poems with the name Rider's song (or Horseman's song -Canción del jinete). The original poem is the following: Córdoba. Lejana y sola.Jaca negra, luna grande,aceitunas en mi alforja.Aunque sepa los caminos,yo nunca llegaré a... More detail
The Slave Ship
This work is a reproduction of the painting The Slave Ship, by J.W. Turner (1840) (you can read more about the original painting here). As I haven't seen this particular painting live, I relied on photos I found on the internet in order to complete this copy. Unfortunately there were many... More detail
Ano Syros
This is one of the landscapes I made using a pseudocubic technic. I was inspired by the view of the village Ano Syros in the island Syros of Cyclades (Greece), which is highly geometrical. Of course, this is no exact representation of the view. {gallery}paintings/landscapes/ano-syros{/gallery} More detail
The Hunt
Among the themes (or influences) behind this painting one could find chess, paintings with mannequins (like the works of G. De Chirico or N. Engonopoulos), the painting Garden of Earthly Delights (by Hieronymus Bosch), prisons, class struggle, demonstrations, graffiti and slogans on... More detail
Ellie and the monster
These are some illustrations i made for a child book (by George Gouzounis) that was published in Australia by the Greek Community. The outline of this short story goes like this: A young girl (Ellie) returns home one day from school and finds a small monster in her room. However she doesn't... More detail
Let us Describe
This short comic is based on the short poem Let us Describe by Gertrude Stein. This poem is one of the most descriptive ones (even though it ends with a more stein-ish manner). The poem's text is the following :   Let us describe how they went. It was a very windy night and the... More detail
Journey in the sky
This is a comic about young Leonardo da Vinci and his struggle to create a flying machine and fly. The story is based on an earlier short novel which was divided into two parts: one with an interior monologue (the thoughts of Leonardo) and one with a more “objective” narrative technique completing... More detail
Study Yellow Blue
A study playing with forms and four colors. This painting has a similar approach with the one called Study in Pink. Some dark outlines at the upper segment of the painting were not photographed correctly. I have included a picture in the gallery that shows the procedure i followed making this... More detail
Van Gogh Copies
Copies of paintings by Vincent van Gogh. The paintings are La méridienne, also known as La sieste, d'aprés Millet was painted from December 1889 - January 1890 (info http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/1389660699/), Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889) (info... More detail
Umberto Eco
A caricature of the Italian writer Umberto Eco. In the gallery below you can see a realistic portrait (of him at a younger age), fast drafts, more finished sketches and the final colored image.    The final image was published in high resolution in my patreon... More detail
Italo Calvino
A caricature of the writer Italo Calvino. In the gallery below you can see a realistic portrait, fast drafts (I had a hard time reaching a satisfying result), more finished sketches and the final colored image.   The final image was published in high resolution in my patreon... More detail
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"My Lord,

you ask for my sketches as a friend

but you will use them

as a King"

from my new comic "Leonardo: The dream and the Nightmare" (temporary title)

  • 1. The North

    "The North" is the first chapter of the comic "We want everything" based on the book of the same name by Nani Ballestrini. The comic does not follow the book literally: Here the first chapter does not correspond to the book's homonymous chapter, but it is a summary of the chapters "South" and... More detail
    1. The North
  • 2. The Struggle

    The Struggle is the second chapter of the comic We Want Everything based on the book of the same name by Nanni Ballerini (you can see the first chapter, the North, here). In this chapter we watch the first days of the hero in FIAT, his fierce relationship with the hierarchy (foremen,... More detail
    2. The Struggle
  • 3. Autonomy

    AUTONOMY is the third chapter of the comic We Want Everything based on the book of the same name by Nanni Ballerini. Beginning this chapter we briefly see the struggles and strikes all the previous days before that Thursday, 29 May (a day narrated in the previous chapter, THE STRUGGLE.)... More detail
    3. Autonomy
  • 4. The Assembly

    THE ASSEMBLY is the forth chapter of the comic We want everything based on the book by Nani Ballestrini. In this chapter, we see the assembly (assemblea) of FIAT workers and ​​university students at the weekend and briefly the events before the big demonstration on July 3, 1969 (which will... More detail
    4. The Assembly
  • 5. Rebellion

    REBELLION is the fifth and final chapter (without PROLOGUE and EPILOGUE) of the comic We want everything based on the book of the same name by Nani Ballerini. This chapter, as in the book, tracks the events in Turin on July 3 of '69, in what became known as the Battle of Corso Traiano (la... More detail
    5. Rebellion
  • Epilogue

    A 7th page epilogue of the comic We Want Everything, based on the book with the same name by N. Balestrini. This epilogue tries to summarize what succeeded the events in the comic and resulted in the movement of Autonomia. {gallery}comics/epilogos{/gallery} More detail
    Epilogue
  • Prologue: Albert's story

    This short story comes from Linhart Robert's book "L' ETABLI". Actually, it is the result of the combination of two separate stories of the book (relating to two separate individuals). As they describe in my opinion in a very vivid (but also brief) way the workers' lives both inside and outside... More detail
    Prologue: Albert's story

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This is a small reproduction of the painting Ceci n'est pas une pomme, by Rene Magritte. It was made with temperas (which resulted to a less saturated version of the image)

Published in Reproductions

A copy of the painting Poet and the Muse, 1958 by the greek surrealist painter Nikos Engonopoulos. I have made no significant changes in the original painting. I used a gloss vernice for ths finishing effect and I tried to create a wooden frame on a hard paper /wooden base.

(private collection)

Published in Reproductions

These two works are reproductions of paintings by the cubist painter Juan Gris. The woman with the basket (1927) is made with tempera (40 x 30cm) while Bottle and Fruit Dish (π.35 x 45cm) and Water bottle, Bottle and Fruit Dish (1915) with oil colors (1m x 70 cm). Both paintings were made before 2004. 

Published in Paintings Sketches

Copies of Dali's paintings I made mostly during 2002. I used tempera and two of them (the nurse and girl at the window) I placed them on a self -made frame. In three of them there are some minor (or not so minor) changes made deliberately. The original paintings are: The Basket of Bread (1926), Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951), Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus, 1954), Mysterious Mouth Appearing in the Back of My Nurse (1941), The Elephants (1948), Figure at a window (1925), The Burning Giraffe (1937).

Published in Paintings Sketches

Copies of paintings by El Greco. The two bigger ones ( The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, 1590 (50x60cm) and St. Francis (50x70cm) ) are made with oil colors (on canvas and paper respectively) while the three smaller ones (size approx. 30x40cm) were made with tempera on paper. 

Agony in the Garden

Realism gives way to the opposite extreme in this fantastic vision of a Spanish mystic. Figures and landscape are distorted, far removed from nature in shape, lighting, color and texture. But unlike ordinary dream pictures, it is organized, consistently directed to a purpose, not a mere extravagant jumble. As representation, it gives clearly enough the essentials of a story that was familiar and moving in the intensely religious age of the Inquisition. But of greater interest now is the striking design of diagonal planes and vivid colors. In composition it is one of the latest of several different treatments of this theme, in which Greco sought more and more compression and simplification, the gathering together of scattered parts, the bringing out of main features with greater emphasis. In earlier versions, for example, the sleeping disciples were large, nearby and comparatively detached from the rest of the design. Here Christ and the angel are large and bold, in slashing angular strokes, while around them swirl twisting ovals of cloud. Smaller parts echo the diagonal swirling and crisscross motion of the larger ones. The painting is all in terms of pure color, not of light and line with color added on the surface. Again in contrast with the sombre Van Eyck, it flares with a lurid phosphorescent glow of changing colors, crimson, blue-green and golden yellow. Their clashing excitement is in harmony with the rhythm of movement, and with the general spirit of ecstatic drama. (info by oldandsold.com)

Christ kneels in the centre; at the upper left an angel appears to him with a cup, a reference to his forthcoming Passion. In the background on the left are the sleeping apostles - Peter, James the Greater and John; on the right Judas approaches with soldiers.

The painting is a synthesis of varying accounts of the Agony in the Gospels and is probably a workshop replica of a painting in the Museum of Toledo (Ohio). There are also several authentic vertical versions of this composition.

(Info by nationalgallery.org.uk)

Published in Paintings Sketches

These paintings are perhaps some of the oldest works in this site. Most of them are made with temperas or oil colors. There are many evident influences (cubism, dali, el greco etc)...

 

Published in Paintings Sketches

These paintings were created among many others during the summer of 2011 mainly with the use of watercolors (and tempera for some thick white or black areas). They are studies of abstract compositions and their size is relatively small (like 35x45cm).

Published in Abstract

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We Want Everything

the publications of colleagues, Nov. 2021

Summer of 1969, Italy. A year after May '68, FIAT workers began a dynamic and unmediated strike against their powerful boss. Their struggle marked the beginning of a decade of workers' and students' mobilizations and the rise of the Autonomy movement. It was characterized by many as the last invasion of the working class into the sky. Last ... let's hope until the next one ...

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