Notes on the Act of Painting – Maurizio Valch
Sometimes the adult appears — the part that organizes the world.
Sometimes the child — discovering it for the first time.
At other moments something more ancient seems to emerge, almost archetypal.
Yet behind these layers there is also a quieter presence — something that observes without identity.
Painting becomes the place where these layers pass through the same gesture.
The paintings do not attempt to represent memories themselves, but rather the genesis of memory and the emergence of human presence within the territory.
Forms appear gradually: monoliths, horizons, spirals and structural fragments that seem less like objects and more like traces of an appearing consciousness.
These elements are part of what I describe in my work as an Architectural Mapping of Consciousness, where structure, territory and perception organize the pictorial space.
(You can read more about this conceptual framework here:
https://mauriziovalch.com/architectural-abstract-painting/ )
In some works small luminous zones appear — what I sometimes think of as lights of genesis.
These are not sources of illumination in the traditional sense.
They feel more like moments where the territory itself reveals the first appearance of presence.
A brief opening.
A beginning.
Painting, in this sense, becomes a way of approaching the origin of human experience — the point where memory, landscape and consciousness begin to take form together.
Related works
Recent works exploring these ideas can be seen on my Saatchi Art profile:
https://www.saatchiart.com/maurizioart
More about the artist and current projects can be found on the main website:
https://mauriziovalch.com/