Roots, Marcello Toma

Painting: Gouache and Oil on Canvas. This painting is part of a series called "Minor Odyssey" which illustrates a journey into my life experience

Bernini's Angel_8, Marcello Toma

Gouache and Acrylic on paper, inspired by Bernini's angels

Route, Marcello Toma

This painting is part of a series called "Minor Odyssey" which illustrates a journey into my life experience

Wreck, Marcello Toma

My current work is tied to the symbolic value of the mechanical object and to the potent metaphor of the gear wheel seen as a paradigm of the complexity of relationships at the foundation of human experience.

Bernini's Angel_1, Marcello Toma

Gouache on watercolor paper, inspired by Bernini's angels

Dancers, Marcello Toma

a short series of sketches inspired by dance movements

A-Z, Marcello Toma

I like to capture, inside a rigid structure like that of a machine, a sign of life and to equate its mechanical movement, which always stays the same, to a willingness to succeed, to a constant rhythm in search of meaning and to an end other than that of simple production. I see the complex of gear wheels, the way they interlock, each causing the other’s rotation, and creating a force, as a perfect metaphor of our human condition where each individual gains vitality from their relationship with others. The more the gear wheel adds new elements the less the fatigue, the more the movement becomes fluid.

Bernini's Angel_2, Marcello Toma

Gouache on watercolor paper, inspired by Bernini's angels