SEDIMENTATION FOR THE 19TH-CENTURY ROOM AT THE FONDAZIONE QUERINI STAMPALIA, Venice 2008

 

A "Sedimentation" hangs like an overdoor in the 19th-century room of the gallery.

In this work I have mainly concentrated on the flower in the Milesi figure’s hair, which I saw as a palette on which the painter had figured out all of his colours. It is like the place where the artist cleaned his brushes.

 

Colour Catalogue (Venice, May-November 2008)

 

Layer 1

Camillo Innocenti’s "Il Gioiello" 

The edges of the box containing the jewel. There are five brushstrokes of carmine red with a hint of beige.

 

Layer 2

White. The veil of the dress. Transparent white. Innocenti’s "Il Gioiello" 

 

Layer 3

Grey. Sugar paper. Greenish colour.

The wall and curtain behind the figure of Innocenti’s "Il Gioiello" 

 

Layer 4

The green of the flower that is part of a bunch in the hair of Milesi’s "La modella".

 

Layer 5

Carmine red.

Again the bunch and the flower.

 

Layer 6

The bunch of flowers again. Another green. I lighten the previous green.

 

Layer 7

The flowers. Blue like the September sky.

 

Layer 8

In the flower: dark purple.

 

Layer 9

Dark sugar paper. The edge of the porcelain cup in Innocenti’s painting.

 

Layer 10

Lilac in my bowl: the flower.

 

Layer 11

Green in the flower.

 

Layer 12

Green again. Again in the flower. Grass green.

 

Layer 13

Green. Lighter green. The flower.

 

Layer 14

I add a little light blue to the green. The flower (my bowl!).

 

Layer 15

Lighter green.