His most iconic paintings are close-up portraits of young women, often painted on a gold background, almost as if they were Byzantine icons, but subjected to the acceleration of the contemporary. A painting, that of Marco Grassi, of great intensity that rivals that of Jenny Saville: the color is spread with frenzy and overpowers the drawing, overflows from it; the figures, caught in the moment of disappearing behind scratches and spatula strokes, take on a strong emotional charge, as if the point of arrival were complete abstraction.