PRIMORDIUM

About this series

Maurizio Valch's PRIMORDIUM series features original contemporary abstract paintings, executed in acrylic and oil on canvas. These artworks are distinguished by their stratified textural surface and explore an originating territory, a primal ground where elementary forms emerge within a nascent space.

Maurizio Valch's PRIMORDIUM series delves into the originating territory, a central concept in his painterly research that addresses a primary ground preceding the full individuation of forms. Executed in acrylic and oil on canvas, these compositions are a clear example of minimalist Brutalist abstract art. They are built from expansive color fields, defined horizons, divided planes, blocks, and abstract paintings with monolithic forms. The artist's process combines layers of color, glazes, impasto, and scraping, resulting in a stratified textural surface that evokes sedimentation and erosion, thus reflecting the tension between stillness and transformation, order, and fracture. In PRIMORDIUM, space is presented not as an external landscape or a psychological representation, but as a matrix where elemental structures suggest a state of gestation and the gradual emergence of presences within a greater continuity. The series invites an open reading on the relationship between matter, memory, and the structural essence of all beginnings.