Ruminating 1980 - (...)

This text is available to everyone. It is made accessible through publication of chapter 8 (which is updated annually) of ‘Self-Portrait’ on the ‘An Archive of Time’ site.
It is the annotation of all the thoughts I have transcribed in notebooks since I began painting in 1980. They are fragments of a discourse and together create a unique agglomeration that will only end at the end of my life. It is a way of thinking that develops alongside the act of painting, and it is the primary form of reasoning about the relationship with the colour, the painting, the experience.

Self-portraits
All the times I have tried to depict myself..

Artist's writings
The elements that make up the usual act of an artist’s writing are used here as an integral part of the system-process-work, so much so that I decided to catalogue them in the archive not just as documents but also as works.
They were written either because other artists asked for them, or they accompanied projects, or were read during conferences, or are published works and new writings. They are writings that almost never have an assertive-declarative structure, but which could rather be described as an epistolary-text, a confessional-text, an explicative-text of a feeling, an empathetic-text, a dedication-text, a description-text, a diary-text, an examination-text, a dialogue-text, etc.

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