ECCPROJECTS #22

ECCPROJECTS #22 Davide Balliano

28 October – 24 November 2024
Open by appointment only

ECC Project Room
Via Martiri della Libertà 2
10023 Chieri TO Italy

Caption of the work exhibited:
Davide Balliano, Untitled_0320, 2024, plaster, gesso and varnish on linen, 182.8 x 152.4 cm

Davide Balliano (Turin, 1983) lives and works in New York City.
Davide Balliano is an artist whose research operates on the thin line of demarcation between painting and sculpture. Utilizing an austere, minimal language of abstract geometries in strong dialogue with architecture, his work investigates existential themes such as the identity of man in the age of technology and his relationship with the sublime.
Through a practice that is self-described as monastic, austere and concrete, Balliano’s meticulous paintings appear, upon first glance, clean and precise. However, closer inspection reveals scrapes and scratches that uncover the organic wooden surface underneath the layers of paint, as a decaying façade of abandoned modernistic intentions.
In addition to painting, Davide Balliano is also known for his sculptural work, which translates the visual vocabulary found in his paintings into solid objects.