The body is composed on average by 53% water. The metal sheet sculptures could be made out of discraded or recycled water gutters. Digital drawings out of photographs of models for painted sculptures to be placed on the floor, 2021, 2023.
Post-abstract-expressionism aimed to make art about "the human subject turned inside-out, a function of space-at-large, the setting, the sitting, the impress of everything outside that once-sacred virtual space of art which had been the "inside" of the pictorial space, the "inner being" of the sculptural one (Krauss, 2000: 114).
Basquiat was heavily influenced by jazz music "- in the choruses and solos, in the representation of ancient African forms with divine resonance. In the role of homage, reference [and] riffs." But, utmostly, he borrowed the device of the 'signifying', a sort of "'trope', in which are subsumed several other rhetorical tropes, including metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony (the master tropes), and also hyperbole, litotes, and metalepsis. To this list we could easily add aporia, chiasmus, and catachresis."(Martinelli, 2000: 159-160)
Dieter Buchhart, Eleanor Nairne, Lotte Johnson (eds.), Basquiat: Boom for Real, Munich, London, New York: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2020.
Henri Michaux - Untitled, 1961
Antoine Pevsner - Composition, 1923
The oriental tradition applied calligraphic techniques, also by throwing ink on paper. Similar techniques were later developed by the artists of abstract expressionism, creating abstract or amorphous paintings and drawings, following the long tradition of abstraction in modern art.
I was using duct tape as masking tape to redecorate my boat. The boat paint left traces on the duct tape. Removing the duct tape, as I was completing the task, I applied the technique of throwing painted duct tape, as if throwing a rope to tie a boat, to create a sense of movement, in an experimental and surrealist non-representational composition that takes by surprise.
I observed that the painted duct tape was hardened and sculptural cavities were created, because of the change of the material during painting and the process of masking the boat's corners. This observation helped me to see paint as raw material, therefore I had no reason to treat it differently than any other material.
