$18,000.00
Description/
The dynamics of transformation is a driving concept and process behind Biagi’s work, in particular, the transformative power of coating everyday objects with layers of viscous tar. With his series of round paintings, the transformative power of tar is explored on its own terms, as the singular materiality of painting. While on one level the minimal yet richly textured tar forms conjure dark themes like voids or black holes, they simultaneously invoke the opposite, their perfect geometric circularity referencing solid presence, totality, and completion.
Tar.
Mattia Biagi
designer
Mattia Biagi was born in northern Italy in 1974 and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. The dynamics of transformation is a driving concept and process behind Biagi’s work. His early work explored the transformative power of coating everyday objects with layers of black tar, an art punk aesthetic of recontextualizing familiar objects and subverting longstanding symbols of culture and domestic life. In contrast to covering objects, his latest works represent a different kind of transformation, of something from nothing. Hands can’t touch hot tar, but by working in raw plaster, Biagi is able to create form directly by sculpting it, presenting the process and promise of transformation through gesture and touch, the formation of being from dust.
Color/
Black
Edition/
Unique
Material/
Wood
Dimension/
182.9 x 182.9 x 5.1 cm (72.0 x 72.0 x 2.0 in)
Style/
Contemporary
Heritage/
USA
Ships from/
United States of America
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