ENRICO DELLA TORRE

Della Torre incorporates fragments of discarded or unfinished paintings in his work. The sewn offcuts cast light and shadows across the canvas, generating new compositional spaces, lines and organic forms. This element of chance or accident allows for a sense of playfulness, irony and self-critique to form an active part of the artist’s creative process as abstract surfaces give way to distinct silhouettes. The pieces invite the spectator to think about the elements that a painting can contain, what the limits of painterly language are, and what happens when this language, reduced to a minimum, undergoes a process of cutting, combining and rediscovering.

Enrico Della Torre’s painting practice plants its roots into the tradition of painting and suggests a dialogue with his personal systematic questioning of the established discourses, and with the unabashed reflection upon the modus operandi for contemporary painting.