Taking off (light blue)

Five sheets of painted aluminium outdistanced of 1-5 cm, hanged on with long steel pushpins. A work conceived as part of the project for the exhibition at the Fondazione Testori. All the quotations are from "Il gran teatro montano. Saggi su Gaudenzio Ferrari" by Giovanni Testori. Edizioni Medusa, Milan 2010 (first edition Feltrinelli, Milan 1965). The subtitle is also a quote from Testori and creates the connection between his thought and mine. It comes from the meaning between painting and sculpture, between two-dimensional colour and coloured sculpture, which Testori is looking for in his studio on Sacro Monte in Varallo. How can we make painting three-dimensional? How can we occupy the space? Five layers of paint, each on a separate surface. The layers slip away, move and go out of axis. A painting that is developed three-dimensionally, coming away from the wall towards us. "...and yet made of painting, a painted relief, a full sculpture: here it seems caught... halfway, on the verge of coming away from the wall and taking on a three-dimensional body..." (p. 174) "... here, in the ‘gruppo dello spiritello’, the object assumes not only the complete and independent power of an actual relief, but, more importantly, rather than moving within the dimensional limits of the painted wall, it goes beyond the wall and comes into direct contact with the viewer; it goes to meet them..." (p. 195) "...it detaches from the wall..." (p. 203)

Slidings
A figure moves in the space before finally finding a central position within it.

Metal
Opere pittoriche su supporto metallico