Paintings | From zero to infinity

From Zero to Infinity

From Zero to Infinity is a painting series by Barbara Pietrasanta inspired by travels to the East and encounters with distant cultures. The palette absorbs the colours of spices and crumbling walls; canvases break into modules and sequences — detail gains force, gesture becomes meaning. Works in oil on canvas from 1999 to 2014, in which physical journey becomes inner journey and the boundary between worlds dissolves into colour.

Tales of travel and the East. Extreme fragrances and intense smells, colours of spices and scraped walls, infinity discovered by the eyes. A new language is created, up to the limits of the known, and the wooden palette becomes contaminated. The canvas break down, more space is offered to details, more meaning is given to gestures.
“When red is red” 2009 oil on canvas, cm. 80x80 + 4 canvas cm. 20×20
“When red is red” 2009 oil on canvas, cm. 80×80 + 4 canvas cm. 20×20
“Masala” 2007, oil on canvas cm. 100×100 + 16 canvas 40×40
“Masala” 2007, oil on canvas cm. 100×100 + 16 canvas 40×40
“Red riding fish” 2008 oil on canvas, cm. 50×100 + 50×50
“Red riding fish” 2008 oil on canvas, cm. 50×100 + 50×50
"Green is ever" 2009, oil on canvas cm.100x50 + 6 canvas cm.20x20
“Green is ever” 2009, oil on canvas cm.100×50 + 6 canvas cm.20×20
“Nowhere, at any time” 2014 oil on canvas - 3 canvas cm. 20×20 + 10 canvas cm. 18×20
“Nowhere, at any time” 2014 oil on canvas – 3 canvas cm. 20×20 + 10 canvas cm. 18×20
“15 words and a red dot” 2009, oil on canvas, 16 canvas cm. 18×24
“15 words and a red dot” 2009, oil on canvas, 16 canvas cm. 18×24
“Connections” 2006, oil on canvas cm. 40×40
“Connections” 2006, oil on canvas cm. 40×40
"Life is so grey" 2010, oil on canvas, cm.40x40
“Life is so grey” 2010, oil on canvas, cm.40×40
“Amount is a moltitude of single”2008, oil on canvas– 4 canvas cm.20×20
“Amount is a moltitude of single”2008, oil on canvas– 4 canvas cm.20×20
“Ovolution” 2006, oil on canvas cm. 50x70
“Ovolution” 2006, oil on canvas cm. 50×70
“38° from zero to inifinty” 2008, oil on canvas cm. 80×100 + 4 canvas 40×40
“38° from zero to inifinty” 2008, oil on canvas cm. 80×100 + 4 canvas 40×40
“Atlantide” 1999 oil on canvas, cm.170×280
“Atlantide” 1999 oil on canvas, cm.170×280