Technique mixte sur toile, bois, et plâtre
110 x 245 cm
335 x 830 cm
Technique mixte, toile, fer et plâtre
70 x120 cm
Technique mixte sur toile, fer et plâtre
47 x 63 cm
The work of Marco Gastini (born in Torino, 1938) originated quite as much from Lucio Fontana’s project on the conceptualisation of pictorial space, as from Alberto Buri’s attempt to paint with " poor " materials. After an initial period of studies and attempts, marked by his encounter with the work of his two masters, he found his own style toward the end of the sixties through the process of the structural purification of pictorial language. The sign itself, the primary art of the painter, has been separated from the gesture and its traditional medium, the canvas, in order to attempt to work on other contents and materials. The works of Marco Gastini present themselves as so many slices of painting space floating freely here and there from the very idea of a painting. The canvas is nothing more than a fragment of material, the sign has materialised and transformed itself into a metallic structure, and colour has become an object (wood, stone, coal, glass). In a word, the painter has acquired a third dimension through the volumes of materials and colours suspended in space, just as he has in the duration of the act/trace as it unfolds according to his sense of interior time.
We have here a body of work whose full maturity is evidenced by its autonomy, originality and freedom from any worry over formal order. It manifests itself in a deep and complex field of perception and sentiment with a poetry as subtle as it is intense.
