The work was performed on the occasion of the Protraiti exhibition held in 1999 at the museum. It is an “Emergence” made on wood, in which the layers of tempera color covered by Bologna chalk re-emerge, thanks to a work of subtraction and scraping with abrasive papers. It seems to be in front of a sketch, a sketch, an unfinished product while being instead a finished work. Colors explode in space and our task is to penetrate them abandoning ourselves to vision. Montani's talent is given by his scrupulous commitment to difficult operational procedures that almost entirely limit the use of the brush. Through a slow and meticulous movement, he distributes the color on the boards spread out horizontally, to finally arrive at the creation of masses, spots, shapes that fluctuate in space and time. Montani with his technique manages to arrange different temporalities in the same painting, in a single plane. In it the figures, rising from the colors, fly or advance with ancient gestures.
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Title:Emergence
Author:
Matteo Montani
Date:1999
Technique:Abrasion on plaster and rabbit glue on tempera