121.9 x 101.6 cm (48 x 40 in)
Price: $18,000
Davide Balliano's luscious paintings defy simple categorisation. Layers of plaster, gesso and varnish build up to create an illusion of three dimensions that suggest never ending space. There is something animated about his work — the repetitive loops and optical play of black and white are dizzying and make for truly happy yet sophisticated paintings.
Courtesy of the artist and Cardi Gallery
UNTITLED_0174, 2020
60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Price: $24,000
In his use of a carefully constructed visual language of minimalist forms and repeating patterns, Davide Balliano’s paintings are at once both visually dynamic and unexpectedly vulnerable. What at first glance appears to be a restricted precise rendering of bold black and white forms, on closer look reveals subtle surfaces on which the artist scrapes back the apparent perfection. The combination of gently worked surfaces and weighty visual forms suspends Balliano’s works between painting and sculpture.