Hug to the tree 2

A small strip of Plasticine layers surround the tree trunk. It remains attached simply by the pressure of one’s fingers. Carmengloria Morales asked me to come up with an open-air work for the exhibition at Hortus Unicorni. Trying to imagine how to transfer my pictorial gesture outside my studio, I thought of a coloured material that you could hold in your fingers and use to touch things in nature: grass, leaves and trees. In the studio I began with my usual method of layering with these colours, one day after another. I then cut my painting into slices and thought of using it as a pictorial element to associate with nature. I hugged a tree, encircling it with a ring of painting, adding a human stratification to that of the trunk.

Specific Projects
Works conceived for a specific site or a specific context.

Plasticine
Opere realizzate in plastilina o pongo