Tommy

Tommy's artistic evolution proceeds hand in hand with his maturation. Tommy is no longer a child who paints his thoughts as "dancing puppets hopping on chairs and little tables"; now Tommy is almost thirty years old and is a young man with a beard.

This new phase of his artistic production corresponds to his gradual discovery of the feminine world, which for him is absolutely indistinguishable from the masculine one, given his complete lack of malice. Tommy began engaging with the female nude in the summer of 2025 with his production of the triptych "Tommy's Venuses", already presented at that October's Rome Art Week edition.

The creative process behind "Tommy's Venuses" originated with his father, who had begun to see it as a limitation that he couldn't look beyond the wonderful but bearded universe of childhood. That is why, one summer day, he asked Tommy: "Will you draw me a naked woman?" Tommy drew her with a penis. So he decided to show Tommy a survey of artworks depicting nude women. They started with Botticelli's Birth of Venus, to stay with the classics, then moved on to Goya, Egon Schiele, Botero, Matisse, and some classical depictions such as the "Venus Pudica," among many others. As his father showed Tommy each work, Tommy would quickly redraw it on his iPad, naturally interpreting it in his own way.

The sketch would then become a painting. Following the triptych of the Venuses came Leda and the Swan, Apollo and Daphne, the myth of Hermaphroditus, and other subjects currently in progress, which will be previewed during the Open Studio from October 19 to 25.

Here are the YouTube videos with the summary of the making of each artwork.