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specific language of painting: black color can be found in several language, giving a new field of expression. Ingredients such as
aspects - from flat hue and reduction of value, from white to black mud which are explored by altering them both at the level of shape
to model and the attempt to recover the theme in a realistic manner, expression and in terms of sociology, are also part of this black-based
to the use of material structures coming from the configuration cocktail recipe.
of pictorial matter. The transfiguration of painting into object by Amalgams, combinations, mix tures, surprise ingredient s...a
modeling plaster relief or papier-mâché also sustains the combined somewhat playful approach around a concept that is by definition
approaches of the potentiality of black. It is also a visual “cocktail” somber, tragic, authoritative and serious. A therapeutic black through
due to new materials which are unspecific to paintings, such as its ability to cover so many meanings, a black which constantly
coal, use both as support and as vehicle of replacement for painting reiterates its metaphoric, semiotic and visual potentialities. My Black.
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