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Spirals
The gesture that returns to the centre
Lines that turn on themselves, widen and close again around a core of light. The spirals are the oldest heart of Antonio Di Cristofaro's research: a movement that is at once dance, breath and meditation.
The spiral is perhaps the oldest sign ever drawn by human beings: we find it carved on Neolithic stones, in seashells, in galaxies, in fingerprints. It is the shape of growth and return, of time that moves forward by turning.
In this collection the spiral is born directly from the gesture. Fluid acrylic paint is poured onto the canvas in a single continuous path that starts at the edge and seeks the centre, or starts at the centre and expands outwards. Every ring carries the trace of the hand that drew it: where the gesture slows down, the line swells into drops; where it speeds up, the line thins out.
These are paintings you do not simply look at: you travel through them. The eye enters from the edge, turns, gets lost, and finally reaches the core — a small burst of yellow, orange, light.
