A heart "In trip" of Daniel De Joannon Lightened from Africa. From her being earth of origin, stings of meeting of difference, purity, colour, poetry. Lightened from Africa that he has not seen yet but it hopes to visit soon Filippo De Mariano. Africa that becomes also and above all medium for the story of the artist. That of a trip to the discovery of his own sensibility and the ability to fully express it. It is 1997, when De Mariano paints "Half-caste - World map", a composition of great dimensions (154x222 cm) and populated by that that, little by little, she will become "his" Africa. The plot of a story still in progress. Figures initially inferred by the sculptures sold by the itinerant ones, in the street that the artist will do proper, up to make her symbol of a pure society, without colour, discriminations, races. As it happens, for instance, in "Hunger of Africa", where his child that looks for the maternal milk is of white complexion. The line of De Mariano is clean but varying, influenced by the music that he listens to painting. The composition, apparently deprived of depth, it shells out climbing over the limits of the "frame-not frame" that it frames it. The trip of De Mariano is also the story of as the technique and the support is changed during the time: from the crayons and from the temper (heritage of the institute of art) to the acrylic one, to the pencil and the jute of the last jobs. One "hunger" to produce and to say, that of the artist, that is ready to fold up any element to go on. From the cardboards from supermarket, to the collectors for the advertising promotions, to the branches found by chance, wandering about for the countries that surround Santa Lucia del Mela, where alive De Mariano. Every single element is inserted in the poetic one some artist, and from its pure sensibility it is suited for the purpose. Up to reach tall points of synthetic intensity, as in "Face" (crayons to wax on wood). The story and the trip of Filippo, still in progress, they have recently assumed new developments of the forms and new recurrent colours. "From a few months, inside of me I felt the feeling of the change . But - it tells the artist - I didn't know what I had to change. Instead, looking at some last jobs of mine and scrutinizing them in the details, there were things that unconsciously I was doing, and that they had to be increased. Two tied up white tables with some string, the white, my face, the colours of Africa, the colours of the heat, the brushstrokes without prejudices, draw, lines, rough feelings, the to see himself on that mirror made of tables again was not able whether to be a good signal, a good beginning". it is Born so "Self-portrait", the first work of the last De Mariano. The most recent chapter of a pure artist. Pure in the approach and in the search. Far geographically and mentally from the contemporary market of the flatteries and the squeezed of it of eye. Distant (for choice) from any mediation or formal artfulness. Filippo De Mariano is a small-great "artistic case". The demonstration of as the ability to tell and to paint doesn't have need, necessarily and initially, of propellers centres and of aggregation. But exclusively of good hand and good wish, leaving always the eyes and the heart open on the world and on the really "me."