Sedimentation (Castelvecchio)

“Sedimentation 2010 #1” applied on a wooden panel designed by Carlo Scarpa and painted by De Luigi. On the other side: “Madonna with Child and Saint Catherine” by Stefano di Giovanni. One of my paintings on the back of “La Madonna del Roseto”. The back that Scarpa proposes as the front forces us to go behind the work in order to see it. To see Stefano di Giovanni’s work we are forced to go behind mine and vice versa to see mine we are forced to go behind Stefano di Giovanni’s. The back becomes the front and the front becomes the back. The “Madonna del Roseto” painting: golds and warm reds. My painting: purple muddied with silver. Two different ways of thinking about metals. My painting is hung on a panel that is the same size as the “Madonna del Roseto” frame. This back, this panel of wood I painted in red becomes the first layer of my pictorial stratification. As always in my painting, the first layer is red. It is as though I were painting the first layer last. A starting over again? At the same time it is also what Scarpa does in the hanging of many paintings, in that he gives them a coloured background.

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Painting
Opere pittoriche a olio o acrilico su diversi supporti, ma prevalentemente su tela