Carve

2023

Simone Fanciullacci

When an old building is renovated, its plaster is chiselled right down to the first layer before walls can be restored to their original state.

This operation creates an almost unintentional decoration, made up of a dense sprinkling of small incisions.

I came up with Carve by laying a layer of plaster on a panel and engraving it using repetitive and almost automatic gestures, using a gauge.

The result is an irregular, subtly three-dimensional surface in which the drawing is still visible even if it has been partly erased. Simone Fanciullacci