GESTURES AND SIGNS OF METAMORPHOSIS series

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My job is not totally casual; there is a preparatory phase that starts from an idea or a ‘trail’, a sort of basic planning (a thought, an idea, a sketch on a sheet of paper…). When I start the work I have already decided what to do but I do not know what the result will be until I take away and/or reinterpret the material (privation/containment/recovery/reprocessing) with the aim of pursuing sobriety and concreteness.

Perhaps my idea of taking away… simplifying. could in a certain sense be defined as ‘classical’… according to the intuition of George Steiner ‘classical’ refers to works which, through aesthetic experience, are able to speak to us regardless of the circumstances in which we live … By its very ‘alchemy’ a classic work, whether it be a painting, a novel or a piece of music, dialogues constantly with the human being.

This removing is a part of the pictorial process I chose to adopt, as well as the material used for these works; a material that lends itself to natural mutation, to “metamorphosis” … to life… creating a play of effects on various levels… of colours that are first hidden and then brought out or removed… thus the pictorial material is not discarded but reintroduced in a raw and casual way into the work.. . Minorcan red earth element as a sign of natural recognition.

A new series characterized by a color return (of the “line without borders”) in the wood through a hole… a search for the natural and re-adaptation and adaptation of the past… (a response to a model… that of this time… which in my opinion did not work and it does not work) inserted wild olive and sawdust and small earth… all over a panel with cut corners to represent an exit from the schemas.

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