Maurizio D'Andrea
My research emerges from the encounter between science, art, and psychology—three worlds I have inhabited and which now converge in my visual and performative language. For me, the unconscious is not an archive of past images but a living stage, a place where symbols, forces, and energies manifest and act. Each work thus becomes an event, not merely an aesthetic object but an act that engages the viewer’s inner self, compelling them to confront what is unseen yet powerfully operative. Generative solitude, the void as fertile space, the symbol as transformative gesture: these are the cores around which my practice unfolds. Painting, for me, is a pharmakon: both remedy and wound, revelation and disorientation. Every canvas arises as a stratification of signs and colors that do not seek to represent, but to evoke—to open thresholds, to restore to the visible its invisible dimension. My path is one of continual crossing: from a scientific background in volcanology, which taught me to recognize the primal forces of matter, to artistic practice, where those same forces take on symbolic form. I believe that art today must restore humanity to dialogue with its own unconscious and with the mystery that inhabits it. I do not pursue definitive answers, but spaces of questioning—places where doubt becomes generative. The work does not occur in front of us; it occurs within us, as a transformative experience that opens the way to possibility.
TITLE: VELENO E CURA, Acrylic on canvas, 60X60, 2025
