He is a figurative painter who prefers oil paint on large canvases. He
takes photographs of friends and people he meets on the street. His
figures are depicted in statuary close-up , although ordinary people; they
have the power to make us forget the typical private dimension of the
portrait and, at the same time, they have the power to become icons
of the human race. Silvio graduated from art school, then he has been
head designer for a decade in an important Italian company.
At the end he decided to start a new life in the silence of the
coutyside, closely with nature and art. So he found his way: he was
noticed and he got many national awards. After only one year he got
Mondadori Art Prize and in 2010 he won the critics' prize in Saluzzo Art
and he realized a permanent work for the Museum of Urban Art in
Turin. In 2011 he was selected for the 54th Venice Arts.
In 2013 he realized three installations named "Temporal Code" composed
by 112 paintings for the MACS (Museum of Contemporary Art in
Sicily), almost a gallery of mirrors that reflected the different ages of
man from childhood to old age: each portrait has the same intensity
and significance.
Most recently, he had solo and gr oup exhibitions held in Hong K ong,
San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, London and Istanbul.