Marco Gastini "Soffio" and other works 2004-2013

Marco Gastini Soffio, 2008 tecnica mista e bronzo su tela 170 x 220 x 13 cm

Soffio, 2008
mixed media and bronze on canvas
170 x 220 x 13 cm

per I tempi delle attese, 2008
mixed media, paper, wood and canvas on paper
117,3 x 167 x 13 cm

Riflesso nel segno, 2004-2005
mixed media and glass on canvas
205 x 200 cm

S.t., 2004
mixed media n glass and canvas
41,5 x 40,2 cm

Nel mese di maggio, 2007
mixed media and slate on canvas
240 x 165 x 24 cm

Attrarsi nel Campo, 2013
mixed media and terracotta on paper
154,5 x 103,5 x 17 cm

Introduction

Soffio, by Marco Gastini, painted in 2008, is the wide canvas around which develops the comparison with works of the artist from Turin belonging to different periods. The mother-of-pearl white of the background, changeable in its iridescences, and the vortexes of brush strokes furrowed by graffiti or insets with strong colors are some of the characterizing traits of a language which takes on unusual painting effects even though exploiting materials far from painting, like bronze or terracotta.

Artist

He was born in Turin in 1938. After the first works of the 60s, close to minimal art and the analytical current of Italian painting, in the 70s Marco Gastini changed his language, making use of materials such as lead, mother-of-pearl, carbon inserts, partly exhibited in his solo exhibitions at the Cirrus Gallery in Los Angeles and at John Weber in New York. Important one-man shows had been held at the Lenbachhaus in Munich in 1982, at the Galleria Civica in Modena in 1983 and at the PAC in Milan in 1984.