Carla Gimbatti

Genesis, 2022

From the Series Reliefs

 Aquaresin, Pigment, and Gold Leaf Wall Sculpture

Individual Size:

14.6 H x 16 W x 4 D in.

I am drawn towards nature; I take something from it, a texture, an image, a color and try to expand upon it. I seek to observe, live, register so that later I create works with another materiality. How to bring nearer remote and beautiful places? How to share them? In life, I encounter landscapes, patterns, bodies. Immense places, tiny details. Repeating patterns with perfectly imperfect geometries. Both in nature and in our bodies what we have experienced is engraved, and the context to which they and we were exposed. Ancient sediments, one layer after another, telling us what happened on our planet. Our hands register in their palm our stories. I strive to make visible everything we have in common and what differentiates us in our structures. To find an excuse to feel, touch, imagine landscapes that hypnotize, communicate and alert us. Contact in a remote context, almost inaccessible, allows me to invent, to go towards a new way and to later inhabit everyday spaces and moments through my work. Travelling is part of my research. Experiences, sketches, an open studio, a laboratory; I go outside and go back to the inside. Other times it takes the opposite direction, it is born in the studio and I look for it to come out, always generating a new path. Molds, modules, individual pieces in various materials that, together, create different shapes that expand the field of what is possible. Fragmentation as a starting point for a continuous, permanent expansion.