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Bianco/Nero

In the works on paper from this period, with a dizzying shift of perspective, the artist’s gaze is directed into a compositional plot that tends to erase distance,[read]in a near mingling, as if to fully know its innermost structure. But this is not just a case of “learning to see” things as they are intertwined in the plot of nature; it means feeling a sense of belonging to that same plot. This is what happens in Pittura per ciechi (Painting For the Blind), a series di gouaches made on the pages of old Natural History textbooks in Braille, or in works like Bianco/Nero (White/Black) Bianco/Rosso (White/Red), where the shortening of the distance between the eye and the represented object produces effects of distortion, overlaps of figures that appear on the single sheets, disrupting their order: each of them thus appears as a fragment of something whose overall view has been lost.[/read]

Bianco/Nero. Gouache on paper, 36 sheets 25×35 cm each, 2007 [DG0047]

Bianco/Nero. Gouache on paper, 36 sheets 25×35 cm each, 2007 [DG0046]

Bianco/Nero. Gouache on paper, detail, 2007 [DG0046]

Bianco/Nero. Gouache on paper, 12 sheets 25×35 cm each, 2007 [DG0058]

Bianco/Nero. Gouache on paper, 3 sheets 25×35 cm each, 2007 [DG0050]

Bianco/Nero. Gouache on paper, 3 sheets 25×35 cm each, 2007 [DG0051]