BAMBOO

metallic acrylic paint, acrylic paint, India ink on canvas
13.8 x 17.7 in (35 x 45 cm)
1/1
2006
From my university days, what sticks out most are the endless waits; those years definitely taught me the art of patience: waiting for professors, classes, elevators—something that seems to have struck Giuseppe Culicchia too in his “Torino è casa mia” (“Turin is my home”) mentioning the elevators of Palazzo Nuovo, headquarter for the Humanities faculties, as one of the reasons why throngs of students never graduated “(…) because it’s not objectively easy to graduate if you insist on waiting for the elevator for years”. During those waits, I often found myself hanging out at an art supply store nearby: one of those visits resulted in a tube of metallic silver acrylic paint, promptly put to the test to create the background for these bamboo branches.

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