In 2018, I returned to Paris to see Amore e Psiche, the masterpiece by Antonio Canova exhibited in the Louvre, and I fell madly in love with it. Returning from France, I visited the Gypsoteca in Possagno to further my study of this extraordinary artist and his works.

It was then, in his home, that I noticed an unusual symbol painted on a mantelpiece: an uroboros, the snake biting its own tail, an ancient Greek emblem of eternity and the endless cycle of life. Inside were depicted the three fundamental tools of the art of painting and sculpture: the paintbrush, 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 stylise 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 key.