Action Painting/ Performance

Why raw?
The rawness and importance of the materials used: pigments, acrylic gesso, acrylic, chalk, dirt and every
other material and elements that meets the canvas
The rawness of the place or situation where the canvas get’s placed on
The realness of the situation


Why evidence?
The importance of what comes to the surface. The possible proof trough frottage, other factors and elements of the place, the person and/or any living or not living thing going over the canvas. The fingerprints, footprints, prints
Evidence
It shows the sacrifice of hard work or of a simple gesture. The testimony of a type of life
It is like an investigation of the moment in that exact place at that exact time.
The importance of the moment
We are always so busy working and living for the future , looking at the mistake that we have done in the past but forgetting sometimes to live in the present.
It is about the present
It is about this moment right here
It is about the now
Now that for example you are reading this text and you are simply experiencing something in this moment inside of you. By reading this text and looking at this painting you are forgetting about what was it…what will be… but all you are probably asking yourself is what is it?
You are thinking how this painting makes you feel and/or what is your eye catching
What I found out about the Raw Evidence is the reaction that each single canvas creates in its surroundings. By being put on a different place it creates fear, joy, anger, playfulness or even a platform where people think could bring them somewhere.
What I like about it is the interaction with people, making them feel something, something that they are maybe not even aware of.
It is also about sharing. It is the experience of the moment between me, the people and other living being that I am experiencing that moment with.
Some times they are people I know, strangers, people that step on a canvas and don’t even realize it was on the floor and that they are part of it.
As if in everyday life we don’t pay attention sometimes where we are stepping and/or what’s right invfront of us. As if time is running so fast that we can’t slow down to experience the moment we are getting.
Elements and time play also a very big part on the canvases

To see the paintings click here

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Claudio talks about the action painting

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The action!

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Live painting at the

Genova Design Week

for the Boero color event