acrylic and oil on canvas, 35 x 30 cm, 2026

Table football is something very serious. You cannot play without being aware of it. This practice is often undervalued and seen by those who know little or nothing about it (and limit themselves to shooting random power shots with their wrist) as a pure leisure activity like many others. It is considered one of those playful practices that provides pleasure and makes us return to being frenetic children for a few moments. In reality, table football is something more; it is a culture, a religion, a true devotion that pushes you to want to reach that pleasure and enjoyment, up to transcending into acts of passionate and sometimes violent celebration. But there is more: what can be defined as a belief that encloses within itself a law of the game (or, rather, of nature). This law leaves behind and excludes the weakest, to make room for a meritocracy made by the strongest, by those dominant specimens who, by definition, reign.

Biography

Born in Bergamo in 1999. In 2024, he earned a Three-year Degree in Painting from the Giacomo Carrara Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo. Currently attending the Master’s Degree course in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.

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