Scribble 11 / variation Painting

After having worked with ink and paper in both abstract and figurative gestural ways since 1999, I moved to China in 2003, where since the beginning, local artists, friends and acquaintances have since a resonance with traditional Chinese calligraphy and landscape painting in my lively nervous sign. Without methodically learning calligraphy, but more in an organic diffused way, I have cultivated the knowledge and practice and context of the ancient poetic behavior and attitude towards the practice of ink writings. I have learned to use the chinese brush and practiced few styles but I was never convinced and I never wanted to be practicing chinese calligraphy per se. Instead my multimedia practice and allround curiosity and flexibility has driven me more ---also on suggestion of dear chinese friends, artists and intellectuals--- to cultivate (spontaneously and not as a superficial masquerade) the attitude and the resonance and the quality and the life style of the practice of ink writing. After years of private practice, my clumsy scribbled have generated a consequent ambivalent resonance and an attraction in Chinese viewers who have knowledge. So since 2 years I have been invited to exhibit various size scribbles that remind the energy and the formal gestural quality of the 'wild grass' style, in which the sentiment and the gestural vividness are more important than the original form of the characters. As I am painting always 'as if I was writing', these works are not linked to abstract expressionism if not on the surface....because their genesis, context and meaning lies in this resonance with the Chinese calligraphic masters which appears through a hybrid, non-pure, organic process of living and learning and studying this culture intuitively and through the amical, alcohol and food supported, conversations and discussions about art, life, politics and poetics, that are, with due respect, closer to generate an inner echo instead of barely himitating that past. I am a deep lover of the Wild Grass masters of the tang Dynasty, such as Huai Su and Zhuang Xu. This practice is also and more precisely a real daily psychophysical exercise that accompanies me since several years late at night, every day. Only recently, encouraged by few academic exhibition to which I have been invited, I have chosen to exhibit and put these works for sale. They are very personal, and their conceptual edge is in the fact that to maintain my general interest in contemporary practice, I do paint and write with a traditional chinese ink brush and ink, but I do it on different kind of paper and surfaces, to learn to improvise and spontaneously adapt to the physicality of different papers and materials which are not rice paper. These specific series is on large raw brown paper, normally used for daily activities and wrapping.

Painting:Ink on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:94.5 W x 94.5 H x 0 D in

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