Ottonello

An artist in love with his land, Sardinia, makes his debut in the art world as a stage and costume designer and actor but later, he chooses painting as his means of expression. He begins to work with a material he knows well: tarlatan (cloth used in sets). After that, while exploring some of the island's industrial terrain, he falls in love with slag-heaps, with sand colored by zinc and lead powder and red clods of earth. Gradually, his concern about the environment and worries about the inexorable process of desertification provoked by climate change increase. All this is reflected in his work. Now Ottonello uses only natural pigments and, as he incessantly roams the island, he collects all the material he uses in his work himself, from eucalyptus bark to bamboo, from sea urchins to mahogany flowers.