Sète 36, 2025
Christian Gastaldi  

Painting : paper, collage · 100 x 100 x 3 cm 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch · Ready to hang

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Painting : Unique artwork

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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed, ready to hang

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100 x 100 x 3 cm 39.4 x 39.4 x 1.2 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Description

The artist explores the material here through a complex assembly of posters collected from the street. The composition is structured around a play of superimposed strata. Fragments of torn posters intertwine in a textured dialogue. The eye moves between areas of off-white and shades of mineral gray.

The structure seems organic. The gesture is precise while allowing room for the inherent qualities of the materials used. Some flashes of bright yellow punctuate the neutrality of the whole. These colored touches create visual anchor points in this dense and structured composition.

The tactile aspect dominates the creation. The tears and superimpositions create a subtle relief. The light glides over the different thicknesses of paper. Each superposition brings a new depth to the surface. Snippets of texts and isolated letters are discernible which disappear under the successive layers. The whole forms an abstract landscape where the qualities of the collected posters meet the artist's compositional choices. The composition ends with areas of dark gray that stabilize the visual reading.

Abstract

Lacerated posters

Grey

Christian Gastaldi, Sète 36
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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