When you live at the age of 10, you are very perceptive and influenced by that time, I encountered the world of skateboarding, postponing struck by that rebellious and unregulated culture that is still part of my life today.

The design, the graphics related to the products, the publishing and clothing of the skate formed the basis of my conception of personal aesthetics, what my taste and my vision recognized as something with a superior style.

I became more and more passionate about that culture thanks to the spirit of friendship and unity that I felt very strongly with the guys I had met while skating and together with the trips abroad that I was starting to do.

Since childhood, I have always been very independent. I used to go home after school to prepare meals because my parents worked in their clothing stores. I called my friends and we were meeting at Matteo's house to listen to heavy metal records and to play video games with the consoles of the time. A surveyor friend of my father had built a small iron ramp that we carried around on top of a skate. We spent several hours in summer or winter trying evolutions on it without great results given the young age and very little experience but driven exclusively by the fun and friendship we felt. In those years I was reading (without reading because I didn't know English) many sk8 magazines such as Thrasher, TWS, American comics, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four. I had a strong passion for monster books and consequently horror cinema. I listened to heavy metal music such as Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Slayer, and Motorhead and thanks to my mother's passion for video games I played in arcades (Ghosts'n'Goblins the favorite) and at home with several consoles, Atari, Intellevision, Colecovision...

The first approach with aerosol writing in Milan was not pleasant: belonging to the sk8 culture where the spirit of unity is very strong and where one thinks mainly of having fun skating, going to parties and meeting new friends, I did not understand how individuals could get to hate each other and fight for a signature that covered someones signature, so I stopped as soon as I started.

In those years, going to the USA was like landing on another planet, everything was bigger than the city of Milan from architecture to food to girl's boobs ... Also as far as the world of aerosol art was concerned, the tags and bombings were massive and the pieces had larger dimensions with avant-garde techniques compared to the local ones. When I first went to Los Angeles, I started selling a fanzine on the Milan TRIBE aerosol art produced by the WAG team, the first street wear store in Italy. I met many writers (AWR, CBS) and thanks to that connection, I started again with my career as a bomber...

In the early nineties in Los Angeles, I liked living in Venice because it is on the seashore and it is a neighborhood with a very present skate and aerosol art culture.

In that period with various writers (BIG 5,CIRCUS, MEK, BLOSOM, SK8, AWR, CBS) we went to paint freight trains in many yards. I had just started painting again but the adrenaline and the desire to always doing new nocturnal actions pushed me to be always present.

My friends produced different pieces with many colors and puppets and I bombed the surfaces of freight trains on many tracks. We heard that a train was approaching and we hid under a wagon nearby... The arriving train was a very long military convoy with lots of tanks without the turret and cannon. Without much thought, we began to paint the tanks with fat cap tags. After a while we looked at our work it was a total disaster most of the tanks had been devastated. Unfortunately I never managed to recover the photos...

In those years if you painted in Milan and produced only tags and throw ups you were not well seen by most of the writers because according to them you were just a vandal. I think I was one of the first with that attitude to paint in a maniacal way.

My favorite thing that I'm good at is illegal aerosol bombing. The silence of the nocturnal actions, the atmosphere of the places and the constant adrenaline during the bombings are the elements that still push me today to go out at night often alone to paint on all kinds of surfaces.

Around 1992 I started working at Joe Pena a Tex Mex restaurant in Milan, I worked from 17 to 1 and they paid me very well (I went out with money in my pocket every night and a frozen corona beer in my hand)

Unfortunately, I wasn't learning much about cooking techniques and elements and I asked my father who had been working in the restaurant business for several years for advice.

At first I was hesitant because he offered me to work on an internship in a Michelin star restaurant in Pavia (therefore without pay) even 13 hours a day but he made me understand that if I had different experiences, learning all the cooking matches my CV would have taken me to travel abroad on a very high salary. My name is Andrea like my great-grandfather with whom I spent a lot of time in his carpentry in the countryside.

He made me use different tools for play but that game has turned into a passion and now I have good dexterity. In the kitchen, I started working in the pastry game because it is the creative and artistic one, you can invent always-new decorations and shapes matched to the dishes. This continuous research and study of culinary decorations and the training experience in restaurants have allowed me to make the most of my future skills in work and art.

What has always fascinated me is the power of thought and mind. In my case, finding a concept and an idea that take shape in the real world in the form of objects or works of art is like a miracle. A thought that becomes tangible, maybe someone who observes it likes, and very satisfying for me.

I define myself as an aesthetic terrorist because my subjects are not conventional but have a dark, sinister and macabre aesthetic that inspires fear but thanks the shapes, colors and harmony of the style I use in the different artworks become romantic in my opinion. This mix of elements is the right balance to fascinate and provoke different reactions in the viewer.

I think that as a human being and an artist the greatest fear is that of losing sight... However, I don't even want to think about it or talk about it...

I can say that I live well with my dark side, which helps me to face negative experiences with a positive vision to overcome moments of extreme difficulty. I can say that this darkness makes me react well and therefore it is my personal therapy against my problems. This obscurity also transformed into an artistic and aesthetic way with particular details that can be deciphered in my creations with different declinations.

After these two crazy years of living with the pandemic and all its negative aspects, today I try to be as positive as possible by living life more calmly and trying to slow down my time to better savor the moments I am living. Easy but I like to test myself to see how I can manage by adapting to different experiences.

Iconography and art in Christian Catholic churches has always fascinated me with its different styles. After a long period of creating collages, I wanted to produce an artwork in three dimensions and so I began to study sacred art and in the icon of the Madonna, I found what I was looking for to create an iconic artwork. In many collages, I have used subjects of different religions often the oriental ones that represents me more for the style and for the techniques.

Until now in my artistic career, I have never asked myself the problems or subjects not to touch or to avoid for fear of being cataloged badly. Usually I do not worry if a problem does not exist in order not to aggravate a negative situation. Above all, if there is a problem, consequently its solution. I try to follow this positive thought in my philosophy of life to be more serene...

I don't have any kind of ritual related to the creation of the artworks but when I work in the studio before starting I light the incense usually honored by my friend Eiji from Kuumba.

I always listen to new music that I have never heard also to increase the creative process and when I work on the computer that takes away my physical and mental energy I drink a lot of water to stay hydrated as possible, let's say these are my working rituals...

I have always loved insects of all species fascinated by their shapes, their characteristics, their colors. In the condominium of my studio, unfortunately, they made a disinfestation for a beehive of hornets, killing all the insects that fell in the courtyard.

With great care, I collected them to keep them and to use them in my artworks. Ultimately, this find is one of those that gave me the most satisfaction. In this period, I am trying to expand my videogames collection, especially the horror game section.

Eighty percent of my works are collaborations or commissions with companies and clients abroad. I don't think I'm hostage to my country. I love Milan very much, the city where I live many aspects are favorable to me, I could move only to upgrade my life to a city with the sea... I am a simple person, time and my freedom of life and thought are priorities very important. For me this LESS IS MORE rule applies so I prefer to live more quietly in my own way.

For better or worse my past life so far has no regrets, my experiences and my paths have led me to be the person I am, that's why I love myself and would never change myself. A mistake I didn't want to make was not to use a camera to stop time in the most diverse and memorable experiences all over the world and to catalog my bombings and mmy night walks with crew friends..