O.Z.3
MARIA MORGANTI
MATTEO NUCCI

May 15 – July 13, 2014

THE DIARIES OF VIA DELL’OCA and VIA DELLA PENNA

A Work in Five Parts Inside and Outside of Four Windows.

I think of this work as a duet, in which Matteo Nucci’s words and my colours come together to create a single experience.

They are inside the window, a place that gives onto the outside world, where things can be seen by passers-by. This is where a thing is shown to the outside world, forming a relationship with the urban space. The city as a condensation of human experience.

This work is a tribute to Rome, a city that symbolises stratification and memory. The five elements introduce a dialogue with themes such as the historical sedimentation, archaeological stratification, and the individual and collective memory that constitute the history of Rome.

Part 1: Sedimentazione 2013 #4 (Sedimentation 2013 #4)

Yellow, orange, ochre. Dedicated to Rome.

Every day I go to my cup and add a colour to the one left over from the previous day. The colour starts out from a single original and gradually changes over time. The matter that is formed is spread out on the canvas. One layer on top of another. The action is always the same: spreading a fluid substance over a two-dimensional surface until it is almost, but never entirely, covered. The process proclaims itself: an edge remains at the top, telling of the passing of all the colours that have taken me to this ultimate layer.

Part 2: Nel travertino (In Travertine)

A slab of travertine, the material of which Rome is built, dotted with small bits of paint.

Every day I place a new layer of plasticine on a wooden board in my studio. Once the Stratification is complete, I cut and dissect the clay, and take part of it – pieces of paint that I stick into the cracks in the travertine.

Part 3: Impronta 2010-2012 (Impression 2010-2012)

The paper that for two years protected the table where I worked. My Impression is what lies behind the work. What we do not see, what remains. The waste material and the accumulation of matter around the creation of a painting. A stratification of time, and of experience. A place that was one of creating and thinking with colour has now turned into a palette-shroud. The contact that formed the trace.

Part 4: Stratificazione (Stratification) Fragment of painting with agate.

A Stratification of colour that took shape over about four months of my time, next to a stone. Geological time and human time. Two forms of time interacting. Two different experiences of length that relate one to the other.

Part 5: Schegge (Splinters)

Little fragments of paint emerge, as though from an explosion from the window, finding their way into the cracks in the outside frame.

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