MARCO GASTINI

«Painting is its own adventure; it is that ‘something’ that comes together marvellously in the presence of the senses as they extend between the work of art and its lover. A silence that reaches out to space; a risk constantly run and won like a gamble. The one that Gastini has always won. »

This is how Bruno Corà describes the art of Marco Gastini, a pioneer of analytical painting. The artist forces the matter to reveal itself. His painting is characterised by an overabundance of materic fragments – paper, glass, wood, iron, paint – gaining a personal identity. This art « would seem to be engaged in constant self-justification – even to restate its actual necessity»