Paintings: Water Reflections

The idea started with a work to be hung in a small space where the person present wouldn’t be able to see the painting frontally. This small space was an office, a workspace. Therefore, the person would see the painting from under an angle. I decided to work on the reflection of the surfaces of the painting. In this way one could look at it from an angle and see different more or less glossy surfaces, like reflections of light or wind on the surface of water.

I worked on them flat lying on the floor and brushing endlessly a pure cadmium red in thin layers (glacis) over a part of the prepared canvas and sculpted the white, the light coming out of this red paint, a real ray of light. Dozens of clean brushes on each side to manage so and once I had used them all I had to clean them in order to continue, otherwise the reds and white wouldn’t have remained so pure. The paint might look thin cause of the color but it is applied layer over layer. In order to brush endlessly I had created a sort of bridge over the canvas so I could lay down on it.

In the center there is a very smooth shiny surface and you can look into the layers as if they were woven one into, or out of, the other. A bit like glass panels one on top of the other.

In this way I painted them on the floor of the New York Studio, the Lightbox.