landscape Painting

These paintings are made with natural materials – clay, bitumen, and graphite – and their shifting perspecitive offers the close-up of a waste landscape covered with dust or ashes, where the horizon line tends to disappear. In the artist’s intention, the act of painting reproduces here the process of geophysical or archaeological investigation. While executing these paintings, Partengo has developed an interest in sculpture, working with building materials such as stones, dry clay, concrete. Blocks of material are buried and later extracted from the ground like fossils or ruins of the present age, in order to explore the dark side of the anthropic environment.