Mario Moraes
Mario Moraes, Calcinação, Oxidised metals on wood panel

About the work

I took it to the limit of the heat and stopped. What remains is what resists.

To calcine is to reduce by fire down to what will not burn. The gold on the surface is residue, not pigment.

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Detail 1 · Oxidised metals on wood panel
Detail 2 · Oxidised metals on wood panel

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