In 2018, I returned to Paris to see Amore e Psiche, Antonio Canova’s masterpiece on display at the Louvre, and fell hopelessly in love with it. Returning from France, I visited the Possagno Gypsoteca to further study this extraordinary artist and his works.

It was then, in his birthplace, that I noticed an unusual symbol painted on a mantelpiece: an uroboros, the serpent biting its tail, an ancient Greek emblem of eternity and the endless cycle of life. Within it were depicted the three fundamental tools of the art of painting and sculpture: the brush, the palette knife, and the awl. With this logo, Canova evoked the rebirth of ancient Greek masterpieces and the continuity of art through time.

At that time I was working on my first cubist prototypes in Murano glass and my futurist lamps. That discovery was a revelation: I decided to stylize Canova’s logo as a symbol of my art with the intention of giving new life to his sculptures and those of the great masters of the past, reinterpreting them in a contemporary way.