Original artwork description:

The death of water is to become air and the death of air is to become fire, and vice-versa
Part of the collection presented at the solo show ‘Gestural Dialogues Between Past and Present’ at the Punta Lingua Lighthouse Museum in Salina Island, Sicily in collaboration with the Luigi Bernabò Brea Archeological Museum and coordinated by the Cultural Association Amanei.

This painting emerged in the course of applying and covering countless layers of paint and drawing. The various stages of painting, painting over, crossing-out, scribbling blurring, blotching, writing and inscribing were purposely obscured, by superimposing the separate working steps in a way that rendered them virtually impossible to reconstruct while leaving some earlier traces still visible. These sediments of formal and substantial strata, traces of painting, drawing and writing are deposited in layers. These traces of meaning give rise to associations with archeological relics, as if they are excavated layer by layer by the viewer, prompting a reverse-engineered investigation of gesture.

275x190cm
Acrylics, calligraphy inks, pastels, pencils, oil sticks, charcoal and graphite on raw canvas

Materials used:

Acrylics, calligraphy inks, pastels, pencils, oil sticks, charcoal and graphite on raw cotton canvas

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