Rapuga é enclava

Finding a place for the small nothings, their rightful place.
For all those things that never ended up in this frame or that box, if circumstances are in my favor, it is with a childlike joy that I set about altering their fate. No to fatality.

Getting by in the face of the world, standing up to time and to painting, which constantly resists me. In fact, it is precisely because it frustrates me that I return to it again and again. If one must name a subject, it is painting itself, and all the ramifications it shapes.

Then everything becomes possible: figuration, abstraction, paper, plaster, wood, ceramics; playful, focused, tense, absent; being comfortable with error and with discovery; resourcefulness as a working method. A sensitive worksite spirit, where a poetic and improvised organization of space coexists with the suitcase of departure, the drawer of memories, Grandma’s jewelry box, the workday bento, or the moving box.

Painting is a package containing a large number of problems, most of which have found a solution. It is within this relationship to problems that resourcefulness—as a way of thinking and making—becomes a source of both pleasure and struggle within the shelter that the studio can be.

To gather and to enclose, rapuga é enclava.

Nicolas Nicolini