Original artwork description:

As I was doing a mural painting I realized that what really matters was the confrontation of the pattern with space.
We can have this conversation over and over but as the line was drawing different patterns, I faced the Simplicity and naked truth about it: useless

As if all the other elements never mattered. Of course, we can use multiple languages or rhetoric about it but I feel it will not lead to some good piece or argument. So let’s skip that and let’s focus on what appears to be basic and necessary at the same time: the medium and its context.
Yes, I m still a painter, yes pattern is my “thing”, and then how to extend it to enlighten the pattern as a figure?
It was like looking at someone, you undress it, little by little, you give up on all useless accessories and then you see the beauty of it. First as a unique shape then as some pattern that you know you’ve seen before and that you'll see again, hopefully
Therefore I started drawing simple shapes, explored first the 2 dimensions relation, and finally decided 3 dimensions were needed.
I call it a body relation, the shape comes in your personal space and you can relate to or feel familiar with it.
I start to work as an exploration of 3 different patterns. Each of them have also a color “reaction”. As the pattern will coexist in the studio or gallery, it has to explore this relation also.
I try to not look at each as an object but more as an extension of the line (space).
The second installation of these sculptures. After making, them, watching them, and trying to have a second look, I realized that it was not enough.
the circles and the colors needed to extend to the space.
I believe that a wall is not just a support or a vertical relation to sculpture.
it needs to be all over and engaged with the wall.

NB: the circles on the walls are painted as part of the installation.
the sculpture is listed but the full installation is without the wall painting.

Pattern as Figure, part of a 3 pieces installation
Sculpture based on a circle of 38 cm and color reaction.
Acrylic on MDF
2018

Materials used:

pigments and acrylic on reclaimed wood

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