Executed at different times, places and circumstances, each of the paintings tells about the encounter between things and painting, that crucial moment when observation and perception become palpable, tangible: when subjects begin to live per se together with pictorial means or vice versa, in reciprocal identification. Indeed within these paintings, tropes, traditions and genres are continuously tested.

There is always a playful and never idealised dialogue with works by authors from different times. A continuous inquiry exists between the processes of translation (nature and artifice, morphology and perception, determinacy and indeterminacy), and on matter and light - diverse densities, reflections and fissures contribute to create forms as in a bas-relief.

Yet intention and research always give way to intuitions and sensitivity in front of the motif. However personally significant, objects, places and phenomena never take on any symbolism, never mirror any personal feeling or impression.

With their physical, tactile participation, the paintings rather address the very process through which objects become expressive and metaphoric for us, our innate tendency to humanise - references to figures and faces, dramatic close-ups appear when looking at the paintings. Questioning our experience of things, they encourage a critical meditation on the necessity of sur-le-motif painting.

Exhibition curated by Maria Chiara Valacchi

All images Michele Tocca, Studiolo 10, 2014, Spazio Cabinet Milan, courtesy Spazio Cabinet Milan, Photo Filippo Armellin

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