The hill of Montebello

"The Hill of Montebello" from 1997 unfolds like a poetic landscape beyond any clear geographical classification. The image appears less like a real view than an internalized topography, experienced through memory. Shapes of hills, trees, and organic beings seem to merge into one another, as if they were in a state of flux. Animals, butterflies, and botanical motifs emerge, dissolve, and coalesce into a multi-layered web of movement and stillness.

The composition conveys the feeling of a place animated by stories, dreams, and quiet observations. The hill itself becomes a symbol: a place of transition, of pausing, and perhaps even of transformation. Warm earth and ochre tones meet muted layers of gray and blue, creating an atmosphere of depth and timelessness.

These impressions are intensified by the mono-sgraffito technique. Layers of pigment are built up and then revealed again, lines are incised, and structures are made visible. The image openly bears the traces of its creation, as if the landscape had grown layer by layer. "The Hill of Montebello" is thus less a concrete representation of a landscape than an inner space – a quiet, narrative image about nature, memory, and the fragile balance between the visible and the hidden.