“Roots” was born as a return to origin a way to thread together the two worlds that have shaped me from the very beginning: entertainment and art.

Before I was an artist, I was a kid stepping into the brand-new Italian Disney Channel in 1998, hosting live shows and discovering what it meant to speak to an audience.

That experience didn’t fade.

For more than twenty years I’ve lived on stages, behind microphones, inside clubs, on airwaves.

That rhythm, that energy, that urgency to connect those are my roots.

Art has always run parallel. Sometimes quietly, sometimes violently, but always there.

Roots is the moment where those two paths finally meet. It started as a 2D intuition.

I drew more than fifty of my dripping red hearts side by side, touching, vibrating on a white page.

Then I took an eraser and carved out three circles: the silhouette of Mickey Mouse.

A round face, two round ears, the most iconic shape of my early world.

I removed every heart that fell outside those curves.

What remained was a constellation of hearts forming the unmistakable figure I grew up with, softened at the edges where the circles erased them.

From that drawing came the leap into space.

I imagined an installation made of transparent nylon threads falling from the ceiling in about 4 m squared each thread holding a cluster of my dripping hearts, laser-cut in red mirrored methacrylate, 0.5 mm thick, ranging from 8 to 13 centimeters.

Suspended in precise positions, they form three floating spheres: a large one for the face (diameter 2 m) and two smaller ones for the ears (diameter 1.20 m).

Together, these volumes occupy approximately 6 m³ of space, allowing the silhouette to appear in the air as a constellation of hearts.

A three-dimensional reinterpretation of Mickey’s outline, revealed only when the viewer steps back and lets the mind connect the dots.

Every heart is drilled on the right side tilted intentionally, like all my classic hearts. Imperfect, off-axis, alive. Each one is numbered, transforming the entire installation into a collection of 1,608 unique pieces.

A single monumental artwork made of individual stories.

Just like life: we are “part one” fragments of a greater design we only perceive when we zoom out.

Collectors who acquire a heart will receive it in a custom transparent box, accompanied by a certificate of authenticity a small, physical portion of a much larger vision.