Sète 34, 2025
Christian Gastaldi  

Painting : paper, collage · 33 x 24 x 3 cm 13 x 9.4 x 1.2 inch · Ready to hang

€780 780 €
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33 x 24 x 3 cm 13 x 9.4 x 1.2 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Description

The image captures the memory of urban walls. The gaze sweeps through strata of torn paper and dried glue. Each layer reveals a fragment of the past. Off-white dominates the composition. It dialogues with areas of deep blue and touches of earthy red. 

The material asserts itself through its relief. The paper wrinkles and frays. The textures interweave in a play of transparencies and opacities. Faded letters and scraps of forgotten messages are discernible. 

The composition is organized around visual tensions. Vertical lines structure the space. Horizontal tears create a jerky rhythm. The whole evokes the passage of time and the natural wear of cities. 

The final rendering favors a raw aesthetic. The contrast between light areas and marked shadows emphasizes the depth of the support. The technical execution highlights the tactile aspect of the collage. Every fold and every scratch brings a graphic precision to this study on decomposition.

Abstract

Lacerated posters

Grey

Christian Gastaldi, Sète 34
France  • 1960

Presentation

Christian Gastaldi is a painter who does not use paint. His pictorial material is the poverty of the common elements to which oblivion and neglect have conferred a humanity.

Like an archaeologist of the present, he collects damaged posters on the walls of the cities he travels through, from Europe to South America. These urban fragments, imbued with the collective memory of a territory, of an era, nourish his plastic vocabulary. Put together, they draw the sensitive cartography of a place, a singular topography.

Back in the studio, he works through gestures devoid of artifice. Working standing up, his brushstrokes are raw tears, handmade, occasionally revealing the stratification of the accumulated papers. He does not paint and yet his works are composed with the same rigor as a painter, particularly attentive to the spatial and chromatic organization of the elements.

But when moving from the street to the canvas, the poster changes its nature. Decontextualized, what remains of its message? If not perhaps the memory of the place, of what has been. It then becomes both trace and index. The perishable material is elevated to the rank of a sacred object.

Christian Gastaldi's abstract canvases evoke sometimes a painting, sometimes a plaster or a textile. From the material traces of a city, they bring forth a poetic abstraction that preserves the memory and identity of the territory. They make us shift from the immediacy of the event to the experience of duration, transforming a sensitive cartography of urban territories into pictorial language.

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