Vibrazione del Colore | Jacob Kassay

Today's insight is on Jacob Kassay's (b. 1984, New York) artistic practice.

The works of Kassay range from painting to sculpture to 'interactive' installation. However, these varied artistic techniques are all filtered through an experimental and conceptual approach.

?Looking at his pieces, one immediately grasps how the relationship between space and work represents a fundamental point in his career; the canvases interact with the surrounding architecture. The artist adds colour or the movement he manages to imprint with pigment, infusing these apparently monochrome works with a physical force that evokes gestural painting.

His silver paintings series, of which we exhibit a diptych, represent the oblivion between absence and presence. This work is realised through a galvanisation technique, referring to early photography. The final effect is a blurred mirror that reflects and reproposes the surrounding atmosphere. Although monochrome and empty, the movement of the colours on the surface of the canvas and the changes in light subtly and continuously alter their appearance.

The language of materials is essential to Kassay, who pays great attention to form, surface and physicality. Although there is a lack of signs that could be conceived of as gestural, his paintings reveal traces of their realisation through accidental marks or burnt edges.