Tommaso Panichi (Milan, 1997) is an Italian artist, born in Milan and now based in Pietrasanta. From childhood, his keen sensitivity led him on an intense quest for beauty, fuelled by a family upbringing that encouraged him, from a very young age, to admire churches, basilicas, museums and art galleries. Even before he could speak, art was already his favourite means of expression.
When his family moved to Versilia, he attended the Stagio Stagi Art School, before going on to the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, where he studied painting. He works in his studio in Pietrasanta, in constant dialogue with the landscapes that surround him: the sea, the mountains, the woods and the light of the seasons enter his imagination and re-emerge, transformed, in his works.
Tommaso is autistic, and this condition is not merely a biographical backdrop but the key to the uniqueness of his perspective. He has been painting since childhood, and his sensitivity stirs thoughts and emotions that find expression and are reworked through his art. His works arise from the encounter between a real event, a place, a person, an emotion that is difficult to put into words, and a personal pictorial language composed of bold strokes, intense colours and almost visionary markings that take over the surface of the canvas. He works with acrylics, watercolours and pastels on paper, canvas, marble and ceramics.
A key milestone in his career was the IN-AUT project run by the Region of Tuscany, which enabled him to attend the Academy and begin exhibiting with the support of qualified professionals. Among the most significant milestones in his exhibition career are the retrospective exhibition *Questa è la mia parola* (2023), sponsored by the Tuscany Region and hosted at the Palazzo del Pegaso in Florence; *Nuovi amici magari* at the Monumental Church of San Cristoforo in Lucca; and the group exhibition *Step by Step* (2025) at the Galleria Irena Kos in Pietrasanta, alongside artists of international renown. He has also exhibited in Milan, Seravezza and other Italian venues.
The titles accompanying his works – which he prefers to call ‘captions’ – form an album of emotional landscapes: ironic, surreal, precise. ‘For me, painting is like telling a fairy tale,’ he says. When asked why he paints, he replied: ‘When I paint, I feel exact.’
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