I am a visual artist and a lecturer. Placing painting at the center of my studio practice, I’ve worked with both traditional materials and unconventional ones such as plexiglass, plastic, fabric, carpet, mirror, found objects. These different supports and materials give me opportunities for unexpected expressive qualities and to explore painting as an experimental field. Additionally, I realise artist’s books, fanzines and site-specific projects in both exhibition spaces and educational contexts.

    I am interested in the process involved in making a painting, in its material qualities, in the relation between contingency and necessity. I collect and reuse materials from a variety of sources and keep the paintings in the studio for months in a ruminative process where accumulation, slow decision making, impulsive actions, inspirations and contaminations filter across the paintings in a sort of ecosystem.

    I do not start a painting with a clear idea of what it is going to look like, and from painting to painting I explore different ways of working. My way of painting reveals a metalinguistic character, borrowing marks from different traditions and imagery to address problems related to images circulation and its means of dissemination. I take from personal archives, art history, books, the streets, empty shop windows, discarded objects, and walls, reusing and composing like a musician does.

    I often use landscape as a mental image to arrange these elements in compositions that I desire to look inevitable as if they could not bear another stroke and casual as a new mikado game.

LORENZO
MODICA




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