Relating with an unknown painter

From the clump via various colours I arrive at the blue sugar paper This work relates to a painting I am very fond of that I found when I was clearing out the basement in the house where I was born. I am not sure, but I think it was painted by my dad or maybe my uncle – his brother – when they were young. It depicts a space of interiors and it is precisely this reference to an everyday space that I am interested in. My part of the painting was sedimented on a canvas of the same size as the reference model and it contains the colour points that I felt emerge from the greyish background, which is similar to the “clump” of colour at the bottom of my brush holder. The two paintings together form a diptych: on the left is the one I found and on the right is mine.

Relating
This series of pictures regards all of those paintings which sprang from an external request. They thus derive from having come into contact with the mood of someone else’s palette and of having displayed the chromatic impressions one layer on top of the other or placed alongside one of my pre-existing paintings. Usually it is a question of having related to another artist’s painting, but what also occasionally happens is that I compare myself with another language, for example a literary one, or that I am inspired by a city. This series of paintings can also spring from a form of commissioning, in other words the work I am weighing myself up against can be determined by someone else.

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