Poggio Di Poggio

Poggio Di Poggio is a contemporary artist painter living and working in Bruges (Belgium) and Sanremo (Italy).

Since a very young age he is in search of truth: the ultimate reality that appears as obvious and natural when we free ourselves from conditioning and ignorance.

It is by understanding how the body and the mind work that one can know oneself better and therefore realize oneself as a unique and fully spiritual living being.

To reach this state of mindfulness, Poggio Di Poggio has devoted 10 years of his life to monkhood. As a Zen and Theravada Buddhist monk, he studied and practiced the teachings of the Buddha. He also practiced eremitism for 10 months in the Thai forest.

It is through the experience of nature in full consciousness that the truth has emerged: All is one and this One is pure spiritual essence.

The experience of the sacred often comes from beauty which emerges from nature in all its forms, a sunset, the reflection of the moon in a puddle, an almond blossom, in those evocations the works of Poggio Di Poggio recall the European romanticism of the 19th century, traditional Chinese (Shan Sui) and Japanese (Ukyo-e) landscape art, evocations of human emotions and feelings in the form of mountains, clouds, rivers or storms.

This experience of beauty and sacred is also found in the works of Poggio Di Poggio. The paintings call for introspection, meditation but also take us to an inner journey made of souvenirs where reality and fantaisies, space and time are distending and confounding. These are not total abstraction, one can see various landscapes, tropical forests, seascapes, the Mediterranean, the North Sea or Chinese or Japanese mountainscapes.