High-rise
lockdown building is an almost three-dimensional painting that invades real
space and invites us to enter a kind of high-rise building where people are
forcibly staying home. It is
a painting about absence, separation, being far away despite being very close,
and about various types of emptiness. It is, in fact,
a painting about the lockdown period, the lack of freedom, the fear and doubts, the feeling of imprisonment. Because of its scale, it is also overwhelming over the spectator. Color is an important element of composition, able
to transform our perception of space, emptiness and occupation, volume, depth
and illusion.
Our homes, like forts and shelters, have
never had such a profound impact on our lives.
In my painting work I always
intend to
bring to pictorial space the presence of an architectonic language and
geometric structures that are almost penetrable and manageable, where we can
access to concepts as space, scale, limits, matter and construction. There is
an interest in the formal and aesthetical dimension of the architectonic
language and the represented constructions, being wrong and impossible, intend
to question what makes us feel at home, protected and sheltered. Colour is very
important in this process, an element that can be can be fascinating as much as intriguing and that
has a significant
transformative potential.
