Light, measured. One soon gets used to it.

In this solo show, David Casini’s works present a plainly elastic perception of time that appears primed for unexpected backward and forward leaps. This malleable time trait, particularly well-suited for recovering artisanal styles and materials from past epochs, lends itself to the forming of futuristic visions with a scientific, or more precisely, alchemic accent.
Casini’s body of work appears charged with an entirely new energy, one that enables unmistakably heterogeneous elements to coexist and become new symbols. Similar to a collector, the artist imprisons his finds according to curious geometries, resulting in delicate, almost impalpable, equilibriums.
The main protagonist of these geometries is brass, a material chosen by the artist for its elegantly retro preciousness. Like a musical score, the slender metal staves confer order to space: the full and the empty, the pauses and the choruses are all represented by light colored objects, as well as by organic and geologic entities that give rise to a harmonious listening experience for the eyes only.
The show’s accelerations and temporal inversions make simultaneous art references to the Renaissance (David by Michelangelo), the Modern (Fausto Melotti) and the Contemporary; all enclosed in a microcosm that draws the spectator to carefully observe details, quickly becoming absorbed in something familiar.
The Italian landscape, especially the artist’s native Tuscan background, is here reinterpreted and exalted through manual skill and the pursuit of a historic, almost extinct artisanal tradition. One example is the slabs, in stone from the Arno River, which form the base and backdrop of each case.

Plutschow Gallery, 2014, Zurich.

Le pause sono brevi ed eterne, 2014, brass, glass, mineral stone, plexiglass, acrylic color, organic element, h53x23x23cm.

Le pause sono brevi ed eterne, 2014, Plutschow Gallery, Zurich.

Le pause sono brevi ed eterne, 2014, brass, glass, mineral stone, plexiglass, acrylic color, organic element, h47x25x25cm.

Le pause sono brevi ed eterne, 2014, brass, glass, mineral stone, plexiglass, acrylic color, organic element, h126x45x45cm.

Le pause sono brevi ed eterne, 2014, Plutschow Gallery, Zurich.

Le pause sono brevi ed eterne, 2014, brass, glass, mineral stone, plexiglass, acrylic color, organic element, h131x27x27cm.

Le pause sono brevi ed eterne, 2014, brass, glass, mineral stone, plexiglass, acrylic color, organic element, h138x30x30cm.

Le pause sono brevi ed eterne, 2014, Plutschow Gallery, Zurich.

Le pause sono brevi ed eterne, 2014, brass, glass, mineral stone, plexiglass, acrylic color, organic element, h141x37x37cm.

Le pause sono brevi ed eterne, 2014, Plutschow Gallery, Zurich.

Le pause sono brevi ed eterne, 2014, brass, glass, mineral stone, plexiglass, acrylic color, organic element, h144x43x43cm.