About Me
Emerging self-taught painter. Abstract and symbolic work in acrylic, spray and gold leaf, focused on contrast, texture and volume. Originals only.
About me
Reinventing myself is the only thing I know how to do consistently
My name is Robertino. I was born and raised in Argentina, in an Italian-descended family. Funny enough, my family had a company named “La Gioconda”, and its vessels were named “Michelangelo” and “Leonardo Da Vinci”. Eventually the business failed and so did the family mandate. I had the liberty to build my own path, leaving the sand business behind but carrying with me the big names of the vessels, without even knowing they could become an inspiration one day.
But art wasn’t just famous names. My oldest sister painted at home, and she was the first painter I ever truly admired. I always told her: “You need to show your work. There is always someone who needs it.” When she moved out, I took the paintings she left behind. My walls became her first gallery.
I left Argentina at 30. There’s a world out there, and I needed to find my place in it. I left a corporate job in Buenos Aires, got behind the bar counter in Copenhagen and even cleaned houses before I climbed to board meetings and business management in Finland.
Then 2025 came and my world crumbled. I lost my job, and with it, my identity. All gone in the thirty seconds it takes to read an email. Eventually, I lifted myself up from the ground to the sky: today I am a cabin crew member based in Helsinki.
Painting for me comes from vocation. Not from expertise, not from business goals, not from an ego need for recognition. A call to represent my own feelings, ideas and inner world to the outside. With fear, with anxiety, with sadness, with excitement, with delusional dreams and goals. With unexpected possibilities.
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Upcoming series
Is the grass really greener on the other side?
A new series of six to eight pieces growing from Rooted in black, blooming in gold, on stretched canvas and wood panels, with wire for structural volume. Do we really want what we do not have because it is better? Or simply because we do not have it?