Artwork details
Limestone Skin in Triptych
Three vertical panels sustain a limestone epidermis pierced by ochre traces. The low relief turns light into a slow, mineral pulse.
Curatorial text
Three narrow modules align like fragments of a single wall plane, separated by joints that introduce breathing space and measure. In each panel, the central whitish field advances as an area of contained clarity, while the greyish sides act as cold flanks, stabilising the whole. The arrangement does not seek symmetry: the central panel concentrates a greater density of marks and the rhythm shifts, with a visual weight that tends to settle towards the lower band.
The surface is governed by a constellation of circular imprints, small cavities and minimal craters which, when clustered, generate corridors and still pools. Ochre appears on the edges of these concavities like oxidation or sediment, closer to an internal signal than to an expressive gesture; its presence draws a cartography of pores that flares up and dims according to distance.
Light does not reflect: it alights. The milky glazes unify without cancelling the accident, and abrasion extinguishes any sheen to let the matt surface do its work. In profile, the support retains a contained depth, sufficient for each micro-relief to produce a fine, sustained shadow, making the plane a tactile register, almost respiratory.