Lorenzo Modica

• Moving

• The physicality of painting

• Erasing, reversing, covering, leaving, avoiding, scraping

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His paintings are very appealing to me. I like the way he doesn't try to create images with his paintings. He always has a clear sense of questioning in his practice. I feel that his work is open, always open to different materials. He uses whiteboards, wooden frames, photocopied fabrics, and sometimes texts in the paintings. The markings of the layers of graffiti bring to mind the artist's own actions.
 

‘There is an asynchrony between thoughts and actions that I am compelled to explore. Painting — as the production of images with the body — allows me to inhabit this hiatus, to expand it. ’

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‘I collect and reuse materials coming from a variety of sources. These materials challenge my control over the work. This attitude sabotages my automatic responses, keeping me in a state of openness, and also makes the line between me and the world fluctuate.’

 

‘I am interested in the threshold of the emergence of images, in how images generate each other, mechanically and figuratively, and in how doing so shape our psyche; in their circulation and in the means through which they circulate.’

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