The dialogue between colour and form becomes more intense in these recent works by Chiara Nicolato.
The randomness of the fragment, of the industrial waste, of the mechanical incisions in the 'martyr panel', of the scraps, becomes a game between material and colour, in creating new textures, new landscapes, new allusions.
It is shape that recalls colour, but also vice versa, in an incessant discovery of material configurations that become increasingly abstract.
What has lost sense and life in the repetitive mechanical work, reducing it to a 'martyr panel' is recomposed against the background of pure colour. The brief space of the painting is embellished each time in the living relationship between the 'disanimate limbs' * , where the gaze draws composite and surprising images.
A 'ressurrection' from the inanimate to joyful fantasy.
"disanimate limbs": from Goethe's Faust in the dialogue between Mephistopheles and the student.
Silvia Nicolato
