Backward sedimentation (Polyptic in 4 parts)

Polyptic composed from 4 canvases overlepped with colours brought from Diary#1 41 sponges impregnated with oil paint. Installation possibilities: - Exhibited alongside or independently of the four paintings that generated them. - Hanging with a metal peg, one after the other, on thin steel wire as if they were washing hanging out to dry. - Leaning on the ground or on a long shelf, one after the other. - Hanging with a slender nail on the wall in sequence.

This work is the natural follow-up to a conversation that began with Francesca Pasini during the presentation of the book "Un diario tira l'altro" at the Triennale in Milan in November 2012. Starting from a quote by the poet Anna Akhmatova, Francesca asked me to say the names of its colours. I responded by naming in sequence the colours from Diary #1, Venice 2005. I listed a total of 25 colours, getting about halfway through the first diary. Every day a colour is generated inside the cup and is spread on a canvas until almost entirely covering it, for a period of about two months colour is deposited only on these four paintings. There is no residue and no colour ends up on any other canvas. The reference point for the creation of the canvases are the named colours. Experience becomes colour. A colour named becomes a word. The word returns to being an experience-colour. You go backwards, retracing a path, starting a route again. What we knew is represented and restructured starting from the words enunciated to “say” those colours that are already made, already experienced. A new journey is created starting from something already accumulated. This is not about working from memory, but from something that returns to being before me. Starting from that experience, another one is created.

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

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

Sponge
Opere realizzate con spugne naturali imbevute di pittura a olio