Eugenia Vanni, TOURNÉE, Galleria Fuori Campo, Siena, 2024

The exhibition presents the ‘in black’ series of Eugenia Vanni’s latest production, in which the dialectic between support and technique is taken to a new level. After the monochromes and brushstrokes created – in negative – by painting the weave of the canvas onto the coloured fabric, in these works the figuration emerges on the surface as a reflected effect of the difference between canvas and painting, and of the reciprocal illusion of the one in the other. Technique and material, background and figure, mingle and overlap, delineating an ideal of synthetic painting that expresses the process in itself of a totality that transcends the sum of the parts.