‘The work exists between presence and absence.
It activates space as a perceptual field.’
‘The work exists between presence and absence.
It activates space as a perceptual field.’
Isaia Antonaci (born in Sesto San Giovanni, 1985) trained in Painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. His practice originates from a post-vandal aesthetic rooted in the underground scene and shaped by a long-standing engagement with martial arts, where gesture evolves from impulse into an essential and conscious language.
At the core of the work lies a continuous negotiation between fullness and emptiness. Each piece becomes a field in which matter and absence coexist, generating surfaces charged with tension, where fragmentation and reconstruction are not opposites but part of the same process.
Urban expression gradually transforms into an introspective code: the sign is no longer imposed, but emerges as a trace, a form revealed through subtraction, erosion, and restraint.
As in martial practice, the pictorial action is not forced but allowed to happen. The work unfolds through reduction, producing minimal forms and suspended presences that engage time, memory, and perception.
Installations and spatial works
My work extends into space through a dialogue with architecture, light, matter, and emptiness. Each intervention is conceived to alter perception in a silent yet radical way.
From intimate works to large-scale installations, each piece adapts to its context and to the relationship it establishes with those who inhabit or move through the space.
