Striato

Striato brings together five surfaces, all of them pointing to Italian walls: Sienna, Intonaco, Pienza, Pitigliano and Volterra. There is no drawn pattern here, only the trace of the material itself: a brush stroke, a scratched line, the mottling of plaster and a marbled swirl.

Sienna is the widest, a 100 cm panel whose soft relief builds an even grid of leaf-shaped tiles. Intonaco carries the name of Italian plaster and looks like a lime coat laid on by hand. Pienza sets wide brush strokes crosswise like a woven cloth. Pitigliano flows in lighter and darker layers running into one another. Volterra runs in short scratched strokes in different directions. All five change tone with the light and work on a large wall as one even, living surface.