I grew up with a pencil in hand. I drew everything, copied everything. I learned how to make papier-mâché and shaped my own puppets. In college I met artsy and protesters along with some true artist. I did not attend the Art School. Two university degrees and a doctorate in History of Art could be enough. However I was apprenticed to the Spanish painter Salvador Perez, who taught me a painting on the border with lyric poetry.
The landscape has been my obsession for years. I defined myself contemplative of nature and outside that vision everything seemed to me bizarre and rarefied. One day I discovered that I was actually exploring the human soul. The landscape had become a symbolic code for what in truth I investigated. So I raised my moorings and built a poetic late pop landscapes with large fields of bright colors. The exhibition of 1999 at the Museum of St. Ambrose in Milan was a great success, but I became paralyzed. Disgusted by my own work I spent nine years without painting. Or almost. Only thanks to the support of my friend artist Davide Coltro I recovered slowly. Today I continue to delve into the heart of man by coding each time new symbols.
I was born in Spain in 1954 and moved to Italy in 1976. Since many years I live and work in Milan. I have exhibited in various venues, often unconventional, in Italy, Spain and Ireland. I painted on several site-specific commission. I teach History of Art in university.
And I know that the painting will never die because manually trace the signs is natural to man action.
Michele Dolz