Collection: Antonio CACCIATORE

After a career as a management consultant, Antonio Cacciatore eventually embraced an artistic path in 2006, moving to Australia to begin his training in fine arts at the Sydney National Art School.

Upon returning to Paris, he continued studying classical and hyperrealist techniques for a time before fully dedicating himself to his artistic practice.

Antonio Cacciatore’s painting immediately captivated us when we first encountered it at the end of 2021. At first glance, we saw something reminiscent of Hopper’s cinematography in his treatment of light and certain areas of color. Then, still within this cinematic register, we felt a sense of "suspense" in every sense of the word—not only the mystery to be solved but also the feeling of time suspended, that crucial moment of decision before taking the first step into terra incognita.

As a descendant of Italian immigrants, Antonio Cacciatore is fascinated by migration—its deeply personal and intimate nature. We are, above all, a nomadic species, regardless of how geographically settled our lives may seem. His paintings often capture those pivotal moments at life’s crossroads. Since then, his work has explored the question of memory awakened by these "migrants"—what we leave behind and what we carry with us, what remains our heritage, whether material or genetic, and how we are encoded through collective memory.

The universality of Antonio Cacciatore’s paintings lies in this enigma embedded in each canvas. There is always a gap in the meanings we attempt to reconstruct—a void to be filled, which is simply the space the artist has left for us so that we may inhabit his work. This is where we understand his occasional use of raw materials taken directly from reality: they serve as a bridge, an invitation to step into his canvas so that, through our own identification with his painted world, we may complete its mystery with our own—the ones that, at some point, led us to change our path.