Headrest

When the ‘Gestureplace’ was raised onto a platform, I had the idea of placing this cushion to avoid hitting my head against the wall every time I go up to the bowl to prepare the colour. Gradually over the years I think its form might contain the imprint in the exact place where I rest my head every day. I became aware of how this headrest had become the element that helps me maintain the right posture when I have to lower my gaze and focus on the bowl. My body’s way of staying in relation to the space that contains me and the objects I relate to defines a physical position that mirrors a precise mental and psychological behaviour when I prepare the colour. Remaining upright but abandoning my weight downwards leads to an ‘active passivity’, an essential condition in order to repeatedly reproduce the form of inertia required to discern the colour revealed right before my eyes.

Traces
During the trajectory, imprints form and substance accumulates.Moving, acting, crossing through the space, leaving colour, tracing signs: all of this activity leaves parts of itself behind. What remains along the way constitutes something parallel and marks the passage of the experience. I turn back, I see the wake that I have left and I recognise something.

Gestureplace
Opere che nel loro insieme costituiscono l’opera “Luogogesto”

Sculpture
Opere tridimensionali fatte di vari materiali