Simone Tribuiani: Let it Snow

Simone Tribuiani’s work exists between reality and imagination. He captures only traces of time, fleeting gestures, and moments that have already passed. His works reveal sport not as a celebration of victory, but as the memory of emotions that have vanished.

His subjects—athletes, spectators, or aerial views where the athletes almost disappear—exist in a slow, melancholic time, like fragments of a dream. Tribuiani does not show sport as competition, but as a human experience: everyday moments, small gestures, and routines seen through the innocent eye of a child.

Sport, when observed, can mark the passage of time. In Tribuiani’s paintings, the moments portrayed are surrounded by the life of the spectator: lost loved ones, the textures of home, muted colors, and fleeting warmth.

His work celebrates the ephemeral, finding beauty in what quickly fades. Painting becomes a way to resist forgetting, creating memories where time folds in on itself, holding for a moment what is destined to disappear.