The present ‘Medici’ series is a reflection on contemporary art, the latter which because of a lack of critical distance and the impact of its ever-increasing financial value still struggles to define itself. The artist chose to reinterpret famous paintings of the Renaissance portraying the Medici patrons and their time, because of the important role they played in fostering and shaping the Renaissance, a clearly defined key point in art history.

To reinterpret these works, the artist drew from some of the most famous works of Pop Art and modern propaganda, whilst purposefully summarising the paintings in a near industrial fashion reminiscent of serigraphy. Each painting’s colour palette establishes a correspondence with these famous items from modern imagery. Making handmade, serigraphic looking painting symbolises our era, in which classical handmade works are often less valued than having perfect, glossy, industrial art pieces. It questions the present definition of art and the perspective Old Masters would have on the evolution of art history.

The recycling of these images echoes the state of Western contemporary art, which succumbs to a never-ending attempt to describe itself and makes it its main discourse. To quote Montaigne: "It is more of a job to interpret the interpretations than to interpret the things, and there are more books about books than about any other subject: we do nothing but write glosses about each other".