A series of objects that mark the territory and make up my world. The point in the studio where the space for painting has delineated itself over the years, where I stratify and leave traces of a colour day after day. The place that carries within it the potential for the gesture to be continually reiterated.
The date I fixed for the work is arbitrary and symbolic. It is the one that establishes the beginning of the painting. Its gestation was very long and the space as we see it now actually started to exist in 1997 and took a fairly definitive shape in 2018.
During 2020 the “Gestureplace” has been transformed and is now complete with pedestals that raise it approximately 40-45 cm from the ground. A platform raises the elastic concrete floor and three other trollies support the Infinite Painting, the Diary-theque, the Sedimentary. The empty space at the centre is where I move around to paint and the four archivers that surround it, demarcate it and contain it, all stand on supports. It is almost as though this elevation were there to highlight and confirm a precise space – the field of action. It is as if it defined a small stage for a private daily action that is detached from the rest of the world.
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Genesis and development of the Gestureplace
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