Plonger Tempo XIV chuva paris

LANDSCAPE BODIES

Rather than focusing on what is solid, gurative and rational, Daniela Busarello is interested in what is liquid, abstract and sensual. The artist’s body and water collected from the sea, oceans, and streets, or even from a melted snow ake, are chosen as symbols of life, birth and renewal. Water is fertility, purity, power and grace. The drawings titled Plonger Tempo are abstract landscapes of the places where the samples were actually taken from, and at the same time, a testimony to the fragile and threatened ecosystem. Using collected water samples, the artist mixes and brings together the lacquer and acrylic on the paper. Through reaction with the water and air, the acrylic produces clumps of material, granular concretions. Water also symbolises the site of eternal peace, and in alchemical culture returning to this element is synonymous with regression to the embryonic state. [Lucia Pesapane, 2020]