Genesis Studies
The Spiral and the Origin of Form
Genesis Studies is a group of works developed by Maurizio Valch to explore what he describes as the origin of form.
While these works explore the primordial movement that precedes structure, the artist’s broader practice develops into what can be described as architectural minimal abstract painting, where spatial structures and symbolic landscapes begin to organize the territory of consciousness.
While the artist’s larger paintings investigate metaphysical territories where architectural structures organize space and consciousness, Genesis Studies remain closer to a more primordial stage of the visual language.
These paintings focus on the spiral and vortex — forms that appear across nature, cosmology and ancient symbolic systems as expressions of movement before structure.
In this sense, Genesis Studies explore the moment before territory appears.
Primordial Movement
The spiral represents a state where energy begins to organize itself but has not yet become architecture.
In Valch’s visual language, this stage precedes the emergence of the territorial structures that later appear in his large-scale paintings — horizons, monoliths, tectonic segments and stair-like forms.
Genesis Studies therefore operate as a visual investigation of movement becoming structure.
From Genesis to Metaphysical Territories
In the artist’s broader body of work, the spiral can be understood as the earliest phase of a larger process.
The work evolves through three conceptual stages:
–Genesis Studies
Primordial movement and energy.
–Metaphysical Territories
The emergence of structured space.
–Architectural Consciousness
The appearance of individual presence within the territory.
Through this progression, the paintings explore how consciousness appears to emerge from the continuity of the earth.
Genesis Collectors
Collectors of Genesis Studies become part of the early circle accompanying the evolution of the work.
These paintings represent a rare moment within the studio practice where the visual language appears at its origin, before the architectural territories fully emerge.
Available works from this series can be explored through the artist’s Catawiki profile.
