“I decontextualize. I juxtapose. I reconstruct”
 
Painsi’s works are all about deliberately breaking canonical rules and creating startling compositions. He unites painting and collaging to make pieces that gain a corporeal dimension through their materiality.
He never limits his art to classical canvases using instead humble materials: scraps and rolls of raw cotton, velour, jute or denim.

In a pure intuitive act Painsi works with brushstrokes that are somehow dimensionalized, given depth, in creating lines, blotches of color and the ever-present words, names and letters on textiles that lie flat on the floor or are clipped on the wall. The accumulation of elements and forms is simultaneously being constructed and deconstructed, resulting into cartographic structures that get obscured with dynamic gestures of scribbling.

Painsi’s handling of words and letters is to be understood within Futurism tradition of Carlo Carrà and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who’s “parole in libertà” and flowing typography had farfetched impact on modern art.

In Painsi’s work words and letters are totally abstract and reduced to mere geometrical forms and lines, freed from their semantic meaning. Like in many Basquiat paintings the stiching motive has a prominent part but is carried out by Painsi physically: he cuts the painted/sprayed textiles and stiches them haphazardly with thread and needle into new arrangements.

Painsi’s work is placed at the center of present day preoccupation with core issues and notions that are relevant and determining for contemporary society: identity, values, self-reflection and awareness.

written by A. Avramut

profile photo / Oliver Sønnichsen