Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is proud to present
Vincenzo Cecchini: The Dust of Colour
From January 24th to February 2nd, 2025.
On our Artsy page
“The dust gathers in dark corners but, when it spreads, seeks holes where sunlight enters. How many corners exist in houses? And how many people have lost themselves outside their homes!”
(from the poem“La Polvere” in Affinità Elettive by Vincenzo Cecchini, Memorie d’artista series no. 39, Peccolo Editions, Livorno).
Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is pleased to present the OVR published on Artsy dedicated to Vincenzo Cecchini: The Dust of Colour. For Cecchini, the surface of the canvas is an active space, a field of energy where light, form, and colour interact to create a suspended, almost metaphysical dimension.
He states, “The idea of abstraction has no predefined standards; it is entrusted to the breath of colour-light, with that necessary trepidation for the corporeal becoming of form, as a place where the vertigo of the first gesture is renewed.”
(Vincenzo Cecchini, In forma di Pittura, text by Claudio Cerritelli, p. 3, Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting publ., Milan, 2022, ITA/ENG).
His exploration of Analytical Painting began in the 1970s with an ongoing investigation into the relationship between painting and photography. Over the years, Cecchini’s pictorial discourse naturally evolved into material abstraction: the master from Cattolica, far from choosing a specific object, embraced a dimension of chromatic emanation that relies more on intuition than reflection. His deliberate act of defining the pictorial space within a screen, never identical to itself, reflects an acute awareness of human imperfection. His pursuit is not about finding answers but about raising questions. (Adapted from the exhibition press release).
Cecchini’s research engages with materials—such as plaster—and techniques, like the fragmentation of colour into powder, to achieve transparency and lightness, giving his works an ethereal, volatile quality. This effect is further enhanced by the use of acetate applied to the canvas, whose transparency and texture interact with the colour, creating ever-changing effects.
This OVR features some of the artist’s most recent works, such as The Dust of Color and Homage to Morandi (2019), Byzantine Perspectives (2021), and Affinità Elettive (2022), all united by the use of mixed media techniques with acetate on canvas.
The canvas Untitled (1975) demonstrates the artist’s relationship with photography, highlighting his focus on the interplay between light, colour, and space as a tool for visual reflection. Cecchini often works with materials and techniques emphasising transparency and lightness, giving his works an ethereal quality, as seen in Fototraccia (2020). His works are characterised by delicate colours and refined chromatic markings, as evident in the Byzantine Perspectives series of the 2000s.
