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.

In the Arborescent series, the artist’s aim is to de-structure the image in a process that synthesises its distinctive features through light. Light and its interaction with the elements becomes the key to understanding the landscape; light that not only illuminates, but also reflects, radiates, dazzles, and influences our perception of space. With this series, the artist focuses on the visual reinterpretation of landscape properties, movements, growth and ecosystem cycles. This practice can be seen as a form of simulation, where representation does not conceal reality, but reveals it through a new perspective, where gesture, colour and light emphasise the transformations of the contemporary landscape.

Enrosadira is the term given to the phenomenon by which most of the peaks in the Dolomites, at dawn and dusk, take on a pink/reddish color, which gradually turns into violet. The reason behind the changing colors is due to the calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate of the dolomite, the mineral found in large quantities in the rocky walls of the Dolomites. At sunrise and sunset, the landscape takes on hues that vary from light yellow to bright red, to different shades of pink and violet, until the mountains disappear in the dark of night.
Enrosadira is a ladin term literally meaning “turning pink” This phenomenon can vary greatly depending on the time of the year, and even from one day to the next. This is due to the different position of the sun throughout the year and to atmospheric conditions.