Arborescent

Multiple fires -material, sensorial, perspective- tell the story of the alpine forests that the artist observes, inhabits and returns.

At first, the surface of the linen is burnt, charred, to reveal landscapes of burnished foliage, stem and fallen trunks. The photographic image is impressed on the canvas by a pyrography and a numerically controlled laser machine programmed ad hoc by the artist. Then the action becomes pictorial and instinctive, searching for the specific dawn. Violet and pink make their way into the canvas, giving three-dimensionality and vibrant light to the nocturnal, boreal forest.

A multitude of burnt dots come to life in the artist’s ongoing search for a link with the cosmos, with the cyclical nature of natural processes.

The Arborescent series explores the theme of changing woodland, in flames due to the overspread of the beetle bark, at the hand of man, in the colours of the sun, dusk and dawn.