Senza Titolo 2015

This painting, made by Zani Corrado, is an oil on cardboard, about 50 x 40 cm. I love the earthy palette and gestural marks in this painting. You can almost feel the artist at work, can't you? Building up the image, shifting and changing, responding to what's already there. I wonder what Corrado was thinking when making this. Maybe grappling with something formless, trying to bring it into being. The paint is worked wet into wet, in a flurry of browns, creams, and blacks. There's a real sense of searching, of pushing the material around until something emerges from the chaos. I'm drawn to one stroke, in particular, a sweeping curve of white that cuts through the darker tones. It's so decisive, so full of energy. It reminds me of some of de Kooning's more frenetic works, where the act of painting becomes a kind of dance. Artists are always inspiring each other in this way, across time. What do you see?