I love collages: making them is really fun! So I make them whenever the project allows.
Here are three different colleges created for different competitions in recent years.
Created in 2024 for the 8th International Illustration Competition organized by the Malagutti Foundation, Leggero come un macigno is a collage composed of a single piece of linocut printed twice on two different substrates: light blue cardboard and brown paper.
I used a frame from an old Maciste’s movie, one of the many I have seen, as my starting point.
I created Voilà in 2025 for Tapirulan’s Illustrators Contest. For this print, I created four matrices, one for the clown and one for each ball. I printed the first one on white paper and the others on red cardboard, which I also used for the background.
This collage Natura morta? No viva! is for the second edition of Una montagna di pascoli competition organized by the Forte di Bard Association in 2026. It is a multi-matrix collage: each element is carved individually and then assembled. I used two different papers: craft paper and japanese paper Jia Xuan only for the iris. This last one is a very rare kind of iris, the Iris perrieri, flower that can only be found in the Savoy Alps.
The artist’s book Sette Corvi Neri is also a collage.
