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By di Tiina Osara
Curated by Stefano Jacoviello
ChigianArtCafé, Palazzo Chigi Saracini
July-August 2023
Opening 6 July 2023, 7.00 p.m. ChigianArtCafé
And if the writing wasn’t legible?
Let’s imagine that the artist liberates the letters from their semantic potential linked to their function within the alphabet and works only with their shape, conserving the gesture of writing, freeing themselves from the meaning of the words to fully savor their rhythm and sonority. A free, light and supple writing that crosses the paper or canvas like a burst of light and invites the viewer to engage with the lines of purely gestural writing, asking him to contend with the artist’s sensory experience. The artist’s goal is not to tell a specific story. Rather, like a composer, he aims to create a symphony to offer to the listener’s subjective appreciation.
Paintings are made of lines, and the relationship between these markings and empty space can take shape by becoming their subject. For example, in order to translate natural chaos onto the canvas in a personal way, it is necessary to manipulate, experiment, remove, reinvent, and capture the inner lines of things and fix the relationships they imply with each other: hence the importance of line. These lines of force can only exist through contrast with the emptiness of the canvas.
Automaticity in painting can be understood as a rapid or slow movement of the brush that, at the same time, expresses the intimate soul of the painter and reveals not the things we observe, but their spirit: rapidity of gesture, which unites the expression of the artist’s feeling and the truth of the object observed in a single stroke.
I began working on asemic writing in 2010, simultaneously with the performance of action painting during concerts. Because I cannot read music, in order to memorize the piece on which I am painting, I have developed a script that allows me to follow the musical flow, defining intensity, rhythm, and emotion with other symbols or words.
Asemic writing blends text and imagery, leaving the interpretation up to the audience.
Tiina Osara (Tr. S. Stout)
