Mercante

Trained in fine arts in Italy, now living and working in Gent. I am obsessed with the beauty that asks nothing of us—the kind that passes unnoticed, yet quietly gives the world its depth and texture.  My practice sits between figuration and abstraction. Figures and landscapes surface through heavily textured atmospheric fields, present as memory rather than subject. Each surface carries its own history: built up, eroded, scarred.—rooted in loss, transformation, and the freedom of becoming.

A note: Much of my work is highly tactile and reflective—its appearance shifts with the light, the angle, and the position of the viewer. As a result, still images can only partially capture its evolving, dimensional nature.