DESCRIPTION AND GENESIS OF THE ARTWORK

“The Amazing Spider-Man #121” It's a cover that has firmly established itself in the collective imagination. Published in the United States in June 1973 and designed by the great master John Romita Sr., it represents one of the most iconic and painful moments in the history of comics.

Once again, the hero who accompanied every day of my youth

he found himself dealing with death. A realism and a rawness of poignant romanticism,

that only Marvel comics could convey, especially in pages like these,

marked by a deep sadness. Gwen, the most beautiful creature I had ever met,

inside or outside real life, there would be no more.

And I haven't remained the same since then.

Reworking this beautiful cover in acrylic on canvas was like painting my soul.

Depicting this scene meant going through it again, returning to it.

with the awareness of an adult and the wonder of a child

for which those pages were entire worlds. An emotion that knows no time.

It is a feeling that I wish to share with those who are looking for a capable work

to communicate with one's own domestic space, in the study or in a waiting room,

silently but powerfully. Because certain images never stop speaking:

they continue to generate emotions, to multiply them, to create a living connection.
This is the tribute I pursue through my art.