Lime Threshold
- Technique
- Mixed media on rigid panel: grid of cut and adhered cardboard in low relief, gessoed ground, acrylic and matte oil glazes, abrasion and fine grain.
- Dimensions
- dimensions being catalogued
- Year
- Undated
A grid of calcareous pieces interrupted by dark voids. The minimal relief turns light into a rhythm, between wall, shadow and breathing.
About the work
With an almost modular discipline, the work unfolds a grid of whitish units repeated with slight variations, like fragments of a single plastering reassembled. In each “cell”, the upper and lower forms are cut with irregular, soft edges; between them remains a dark interval that functions as a visual pause, a negative space that orders the gaze without imposing itself.
The composition is articulated in two contiguous panels, whose separation introduces a real joint, equivalent to the internal lines of the grid. This central cut reinforces the architectural reading of the whole: there is no scene, but a wall surface; no gesture, but construction through pieces, overlaps and edges that set a serene rhythm.
Light acts through grazing. At the meetings between modules, thin shadows appear that betray the low relief, while the pale fields hold a matte, almost calcareous luminosity. The blacks, contained and slightly veiled, absorb depth and make the surface more tactile.
In the skin one perceives grains, small incisions and minimal stains, like a sedimentation of dust and salt. This texture, discreet yet constant, maintains the vibration and sustains the slow contemplation characteristic of Pagliari’s language.
