With this series of work Isaia allows us to enter into the elaboration of his pictorial process: the sign is transferred onto the canvas by color casts made on paper, therefore painting, in this case, is an indirect consequence, an action in the non action. From a “mass of energy” the mold for a second work comes to life, and so on, until its reduction… finally, it synthesizes the work in the residue of the first cast released, now torn, divided and consumed but which contains the core of this analysis. It is a circular work, which is reduced through different stages of maturation, from material stratified over time to a “shroud” that traces the essence of its path.
"Calco 52", graphite and residues on canvas, 100 x 100 cm.
"Calco 52", graphite and residues on canvas, 100 x 100 cm.
"Calco 53", graphite and residues on canvas, 100 x 100.
"Frammento tondo", residues of material on paper applied on plexiglass, 100 x 100 cm.
"Frammento A/B" (side A), color matrices on paper, work fixed on self-supporting plexiglass measuring 25 x 170 cm
"Frammento A/B" (side B), color matrices on paper, work fixed on self-supporting plexiglass measuring 25 x 170 cm
“Calchi”
Casts as footprints: an imprint is the mark that leaves a body imprinted on another. It is the trace left by an organism or physical phenomenon on the surface of a sedimentary layer; they are images made up of the passage of a body which later dissolved, from a natural phenomenon such as rain, humidity, heat… of which forms negatively engraved in the artistic event remain… it is the decomposition of the transposition of the elements released in the pictorial action.
"Frammento D", color matrices on paper applied to a plexiglass panel, 54 x 104 cm.
"Traces, Calco 27", color casts and residues on canvas, 51 x 96
Calco 29/A, residues on canvas (oil, tar, pigments), 70 x 118.5 cm.
"Calco 29", residues on canvas (oil, tar, pigments, humidity), 54 x 119.5 cm.
"Calco 31", residues on canvas (oil, tar, pigments, humidity), 75 x 110 cm.
"Calco 40", residues on canvas (oil, tar, pigments), 51 x 75 cm.
"Calco 30", residues on canvas (oil, tar, pigments, humidity), 75 x 119.5 cm.
"Calco 23", residues on canvas (oil, tar, pigments, humidity), 25 x 70 cm.
“Ambienti”
Installation for a temporary theater in Milan, in which the works in canvas and acetate are hung on a supporting structure, used in theaters to hold the sets. Illuminated with lights that vary in color, the signs between the various acetates are reflected on the canvases, changing “environments” or points of view of the work itself. The viewer can pass through the installation and live this sensorial experience.
2025
“Oversize”, collective at Museo Casa del Console, Calice Ligure (Italy)
2021
“Presenti”, Galleria Martesana, Milan
“Calchi”, Arte Città Amica, Turin
1st prize in painting section “Biennale d’Arte Metropoli di Torino”, award ceremony at the Teatro Agnelli in Turin.
