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Elena Cecchinato

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  • June 19, 2016

Painting on Water

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I always collected sheets of old marble paper from diverse parts of the world. Marble paper has this etheral quality of timeless organic abstraction.

I started experimenting with carragheen moss and water and acrylic colours and treasured recipes. Marbling is a very alchemic process depending on the thickness and timing of the water and the dilution of the paints, the colours can either expand or unpredictably contract into patterns which can be combed or fanned yet never fully controlled. I also started incorporating colour pigments, these tend to disrupt the acrylic flow and break the colours into dense clusters.

I made a total of seventy water paintings. This series is called ‘Private Cells, Common Skulls’.

They are on Japanese rice paper bathed in an aluminium solution.

 

Diary
  • Signs of the Times
  • Art Underground
  • Which Story, Whose Histories ?
  • Mint Her Majesty – Art Save The Queen NFTs Collection
  • Art Save The Queen @ Oxo Gallery and Adlib Gallery Wimbledon
  • Languages as Images Workshop
  • Open Art Spaces 2021
  • Art in the Age of Now
  • Fresh Flowers and Hair
  • Dispensary Gallery
  • Unwrite
  • Unwrite
  • Museum Spirituality IV
  • Museum Spirituality series III
  • Rivers of Change
  • Roses and Teeth
  • ‘Switch Supposing’ in an Urban Show, Art For All
  • 11.11. San Martino Day, Armistice Day
  • “Reveries, Soul’s Sounds, Memories, Action”
  • Sound, Water and Paint Recordings on Paper
  • Buone Vacanze! Restoring Narratives..
  • Post-truth & the Whatnot, My new studio for 2017
  • Daily Cosmologies, Automatic Writing
  • Lacrimae Rerum V
  • Painting on Water
  • Mould Making and Slip Casting of a Diesel Jerry Can
  • Innovations In Ceramic Art, Cambridge
  • Realms and Bridges @ Cowgill, Dentdale
  • Ceramic Openstudio @ Sally Larke Coach House
  • Studio in Venezia, Malamocco
  • In Lagos, researching Politics of Hair and Identity
  • A Collaboration in ceramic with artist Wendy Campbell-Briggs
  • Studio @ Cowgill, Dentdale, Yorkshire
  • Studio 16, Warwick
  • Printing Studio @ Hybridarts, Royal Leamington Spa
  • EC Studio, Shepherd’s Bush Market, London
  • Studio @ Iron Yard, Warwick
  • Don Error and Miss Takes
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