Niele Toroni

Since the 1960s, Niele Toroni has committed himself to investigating how his particular concept of painting—imprints of a paint-laden #50 brush made repeatedly at perpendicular 30 centimeter intervals—subtly evidences human touch in the same moment that it obliterates the brushstroke as emotive or psychological record. This physical and conceptual dichotomy creates many thoughtful contradictions within his work: the material existence of applied paint with its lack of status as a material object; the systematic sameness of his application with the uniqueness of each imprint; and the manner in which the architectural details and boundaries of a given space serve to both limit and support his work.