Falling in love with Picasso, De Chirico and Dalí as an Italian teenager, now London-based Patrizio di Massimo creates seductive paintings that discover the beautiful and the grotesque. Describing himself as an obsessive painter, he speaks of his paintings as layered cemeteries of images that need to be destroyed to achieve the final result. Di Massimo’s paintings depict hidden or forbidden desires, allowing for a connection with the physical experience of the body.