Johanny Perez

I was born in the Dominican Republic, naturalized Italian.Passionate about art since I was a child, I began training as a self-taught artist. I experimented with all available materials; I'm not satisfied with painting on paper and canvas, the thing that gives me the most satisfaction is creating unique and authentic pieces. So one day I found a piece of plastic canvas in my hands and my first textile work was born. A work that represented a field of daisies with a rabbit in the foreground. I was 12 years old at the time. I was so proud of the result that I showed my work to everyone. Painting has always been a fundamental part of my life, it was my magical world where I took refuge as a child and it still is. For many years I continued to paint with acrylic, oil, watercolors, pastels, charcoal, textile art and create sculptures. My sources of inspiration are various, I see art in everything, nature and its colours; in fact my favorite seasons are spring and autumn which, with their explosion of colours, give me an inexhaustible source of inspiration to create my works. It's like giving shape to the beauty of a flower on canvas; or with my abstract works with the emotional effects of color itself. My works in general, both paintings and wall sculptures, are full of colors. I believe that the maximum expression of colors is art and the painter, through colour, talks about himself, his state of mind, his emotions, his feelings. The colors become his words, the brushstrokes his style and the work his message. Color is his absolute means of expression and communication. Each of its nuances contains a symbolic world that the observer grasps in an empathetic exchange. In 2005 I met the Trentino painter Claudio Abrignani, who led me to the decision to dedicate myself full time to art. I mainly deal with visual art ranging from painting, sculpture, digital art, floral art, to textile art installation. My artistic path is a continuous search to improve my painting techniques, often experimenting with new techniques and materials.