Self-absorbed on rocks III, 2020 | work in progress, Long Hai, Vietnam
A.FARM, Saigon
WORKS ON PAPER - A.Farm Art Residency
03/2020 - 06/2020
From November 2019 until June 2020, Saverio Tonoli has been researching Xuan paper, ink and colour as part of his painting exploration in Asia. His works have been showed in occasion of Taipei Dangdai art fair after a residency at Wu Chi-Tsung studio, and then in Saigon, Vietnam, where he presents, in occasion of A.Farm’s show, a segment of the works done during the residency.
Monoprint #S1 combines painting and printing techniques, composing the image with water’s texture and colour glazings. Azoth II is a large format collage made of pieces of different paintings collected in the last 7 months and composed together. It resembles an organism, as well as kind of interstellar space, both a figure and a landscape. The installation Decollage is made of collected remains of paintings and is activated by the studio fan. This piece is inspired by the italian artist Mario Merz and his works on paper.
In his Monoprints series Saverio paints directly onto the paper and PVC sheets which are utilised as a printing plate. This allows to paint&paste parts of the composition, record water patterns, modulate different degrees of wet and dry ink and create multiple layers of almost invisible ink washes. Self-absorbed on rocks is another ongoing painting project, a series of large panoramic works on paper painted directly in situ, on the coasts of different countries. The paper is wet-brushed directly on the cliffs and then painted with ink, revealing rocks‘ volumes and textures and expanding the practice of Frottage.
