NIELE TORONI
2019-02-18Niele Toroni has been working since 1967 with a precise methodology that involves creating a sequence of imprints on a variety of supports. The imprints are made by a no. 50 brush and 30 cm apart. Each one is the place of an epiphany, revealing a constant metamorphosis of the artist’s action over time.
“Niele Toroni has been repeating his brush imprints in time and space. But it is never the same thing because the same is the same is the same, and it is obstinately dissociated from bring identical. The pleonasm becomes a battery: the energy of iteration and the open structure. It is not the ups and downs of the artist’s soul that are the inhibitors of identity, but rather the places where the method is rendered explicit. Having rid itself of the dead wood of all judgments of value and all historical connivance, the practice of true painting is the constant: it finds the essence of each work by reference to its own essence. The world is not reduced to two dimensions, as would normally be the case in a picture, but painting is a given situation and thus becomes an open structure, freely reconceivable in everything.” (Harald Szeemann, 1991).
Opposite – Impronte di pennello n. 50 a intervalli di 30 cm, 1989
Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2019
A arte Invernizzi
via D. Scarlatti 12
20124 Milan
Italy
