The gesture of painting within the cast works might be frozen and inanimate but this cryogenic stillness belies an inherent truth and integrity akin to, if not greater than, that of the raw gesture, left naked and free of encapsulation. In conceiving a process that involves such technical challenges, I am forced to revise my approach as to how to construct gesture. This highlights very real issues surrounding the time prior to and immediately after the ‘found’ moments I seek, during the resolution of a panel in readiness for casting.
It is all a moment (but forever) by Luca Massimo Barbero, Paintings as sculpture exhibition, Lisson gallery, Milan, 2013
Xibalba 2014
Black Silver
40 x 30cm
Xosa 2012
Copper
45 x 30cm
Untitled Silver I 2017
Silver
44 x 33cm
Untitled Silver III 2017
Silver
44 x 33cm
Au I 2017
Gold
44 x 33cm
Untitled Silver IV 2017
Silver
44 x 33cm