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Likewise, the work on architecture or on other authors’ works manage, by means of this instrument, to give the works the possibility of a dual reading between the pre-existent pillar and the artist’s gesture, in order to recreate a new plastic fact. The two most widely known performances (also polemic and ephemeral) made by him, the white spots on the columns on the main facade of the «Solís» theatre and on Belloni’s monument «El Entrevero» evidence how moving and striking the application of a simple visual texture might be. His technical command (basically the work with airbrush) has been essential for the soundness of the plastic outcomes that have made him renowned not only in the institutional field but also among the private collectors in Uruguay and in several foreign countries.
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Masi has not yet exhausted neither the search nor the experimentation of his personal style, as it is shown by his last works, both in pictures in easel and in three-dimensional pillars or in the different instances of his performances, and he finds new applications and evolutional possibilities in his daily work.
Eduardo Folle-Chavannes
Extracted from Magazine «Elarqa» Nr 48, October 2004, from section «Elojo»
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