Wall Painting #1

This work consists of a 275cm-high and 475cm-wide plasterboard panel mounted on a wall onto which 33 screws painted in different colours have been attached. Each colour indicates the height to hang the paintings following a precise installation format. At the foot of the wall are four wooden platforms the same width as the paintings. Completing the work is a drawing in pencil and pen on which the key to the screws is displayed. There is also a small pencil work in the right-hand margin of the wall where the heights relating to the sizes of the painting are marked: Body, Half-bust, Portrait, Hand, Diary.
 
The wall contains some installation possibilities:
1-     Each painting is already a whole: one painting hung in the centre of the wall.
2-     Seriality, repetition, as though I were painting a single painting, splitting it ad infinitum: a sequence of a series of ‘Sedimentations’ all the same size;
3-     The body’s projection determines the size of the act of painting: a sequence of all four ‘Sedimentations’ formats;
4-     One at a time: one or more ‘Sedimentations’, each of them one of the four sizes, leaning against the wooden base corresponding to a pair of paintings hanging on the wall;
5-     ….
 
The thing I am describing is the wall at the centre of my studio where I observe the painting at the moment I take it out of the ‘Gestureplace’ – or rather the place where it is formed. In a certain sense, I have tried to delineate a white page where I can write my thought, where I can express a concept. I have focussed on the exact moment I detach myself from the act, when I start bringing my visual reasoning into play and creating a distance, putting in front of my eyes what has been established earlier in the close relationship with the substance. This piece of wall is where I am able to see the thoughts that have formed in my brain, either by isolating a painting from the others or by placing it in relation to the others. It is the screen onto which I can project the measurements deriving from my body and as a consequence where I can define my dimension, not only beforehand in terms of defining the painting’s format, the space chosen to paint, but also later in terms of the format where I can imagine what has been painted, in the space that will accommodate it in the world. It is a zone of passage between an interior and an exterior, like a sort of interregnum where I can let the work decant before transferring it to the external world with a finished identity.

Painting Walls
Reproductions of the wall in my studio used for thinking about the painting and its subsequent interpretation through a certain way of displaying the paintings.

Installation
Opere che si adattano e rimodulano lo spazio creando ambienti immersivi