Progetto 74, 1974

Gastini’s work has developed completely within the realm of painting: “The question is one of painting,” he wrote in 1973, “of painting and making paintings. Saying painting and saying making paintings signifies setting up a discontinuity, focusing one’s attention, concentrating.”

Gastini initiated his pictorial research while the international period of Art Informel and Abstract Expressionism was coming to an end. [...]