Mécènes

Italy

 I was born in Altamura, a  famous city in the South East of Italy. My immense passion for everything related to the horses brought me to devote my life in studying the scientific welfare of horses. I started studying classical equestrian techniques and participated successfully in Endurance and Dressage competitions with horses trained by myself. Then I worked as Equestrian Instructor, specialized in working with horses with behavoural problems. My Breeding Farm is the only place, in Center-South Italy to focus on the welfare of the horse, ethically speaking. I follow the studies of the founders of the Italian School of Ethical Horsemanship, based in Tuscany, and for once, I can say it is an all-Italian pride.

The art, the symmetry, the musicality of movements, the lightness, had inevitably attracted me towards the beautiful horse par excellence : who can say that there is beauty more exciting than an Arabian?  So as avid student as I am I started to study deeply in the past of this magnificent horse, their pedigrees, their original breeders, the contribution of Occidentals to the international development of this horse. I worked as Journalist too, writing texts ( often provocative ones) about the historiography  (different from the history) of this horse.

I founded my breeding Farm in 1999, with a clear focus in my mind: the Dahman Shahwan strain. I imported my foundations horses from U.S:A. , Germany, Ireland, and my first stallion from Italy.

In my prime my passion for the Arabian horse was also expressed through art: I produced numerous works of painting in oil, tempera and charcoal which always had as their absolute protagonist, the Arabian Horse, in the most logical continuity artistic vein of the''orientalists'' of the late nineteenth century French.

Some of my paintings  are in the United States, Libya, Germany and France.