With the project Mother’s Bliss presented at the Ncontemporary gallery in Milan, Cristiano Tassinari investigated his mother cultural imagery through her drawings and her memorabilia collection. Representations and symbols in her stories that are also genetic heritage of the generation born after the Second World War.

The paintings are based on her collection of porcelain, postcards and paraphernalia and fuse the tradition of Flemish and Dutch old master painting with ideas and images drawn from her compilation.