THE ARTWORK
In Gianfranco Baruchello’s etching from the portfolio Segni incisi per Marina di Ravenna, small graphic elements are scattered across an almost empty surface. Minute marks, suggested presences and delicate outlines call for a close look, able to distinguish relationships that remain suspended from a distance.
The white of the paper is more than a margin: it becomes the space in which each trace finds its own distance. The composition invites movement between fragments without imposing a single route. The whole thus retains an intimate scale, in which precision of line coexists with openness of interpretation.
The white of the paper is more than a margin: it becomes the space in which each trace finds its own distance. The composition invites movement between fragments without imposing a single route. The whole thus retains an intimate scale, in which precision of line coexists with openness of interpretation.