Bowl #1

Before arriving at my system of creating the colour in a single bowl, which has been with me constantly since around 2004, for many years I worked on a wider palette consisting of several parts, or rather several bowls that each contained individual colours: one red, the other blue, another green, etc.
The quantity of colours gradually decreased over time. From around twenty it went down to ten, then eight, then six and so on, until there was only one container.
I still have four of those bowls from the first period. Some of the others were thrown away, others were lost during various moves and a couple were given away.
Now, in 2021, I have decided that these four bowls, which had been active from the 1980s until the early 2000s, should be seen as four distinct and defined works of art.
This file documents one of them.

Bowls
The bowl il the palet where I create my colour every day. I never use a pure colour; I always start from what I find inside the cup. What I find is what is left over from the day before once I have painted on a canvas. Every day I add a new colour, slowly transforming it over time. The substance changes, is consumed and does not accumulate. It is always renewed. The cup never empties but is always alive and wet. It is like keeping a plant alive.

Tool
Opere che possono essere utilizzate come strumenti per fare qualcos’altro nello studio e nell’archivio