Ongoing project

The first drawn Matriarch was a homage to the great maestro, Niki de Saint Phalle during her solo exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris. This one appeared among the pages of La Lettura, in newspaper the Corriere della Sera’s Sunday supplement, and it was shown in the exhibition “Graphic Novels” at the Triennale Milano, in 2015.

The project has expanded in other directions and it is still in progress.

The Feminine has always been a central theme in my personal research—in many directions that are slowly taking shape.

In my inner world, the Matriarchs are the Mothers, the beginning of our lineage.

They are the Great Mothers.
They embody something powerful within the Feminine: they are archetypes and metaphors of something vast that belongs to all of us.
This is the beginning of the story behind this project.

My first true Matriarch was inspired by the exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris dedicated to Niki de Saint Phalle—one of my greatest masters.
I created her as part of a visual review of the show, which I proposed to Corriere della Sera in the form of an illustrated infographic.
It was both a creative tribute and a way to tell De Saint Phalle’s story through images.

The other Matriarchs you see here came to life shortly after the first. They are inspired by her and are part of the same lineage.