Davide BALULA Burnt Painting, Imprint Of The Burnt Painting (Superimposed Blinds) - 2016 Burnt wood and ashes on canvas 198 x 133 cm (canvas) 198 x 76 cm (burnt painting) Burnt wood and dust of burnt wood on canvas 77,95 x 52,36 in. Provenance: Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels Acquired directly from the latter by the current owner FR The works in this series are composed of two binary elements: a frame containing the residue of burnt charcoal and a second frame containing a canvas printed with the burnt charcoal. In groups of two, three or four frames, these 'paintings' are placed together in a positive and negative relationship, rather like photography or engraving. The charcoal-making process is slow and steady, requiring a gradual increase and decrease in heat so that the wood is not turned to ash, but retains the potential to burn again; the burnt paintings thus consider the cyclical, almost alchemical transfer of energy in nature, a phenomenon fundamental to Balula's work. EN The works in this series are composed of two binary elements: a frame containing the burnt charcoal residue, and a second frame containing a canvas printed with the burnt charcoal. In groups of two, three or four frames, these "paintings" are placed together in a positive and negative relationship, much as in photography or printmaking. The charcoal-making process is slow and steady, requiring a gradual increase and decrease in heat so that the wood is not turned to ash, but retains the potential to burn again; the burnt paintings thus consider the cyclical, almost alchemical transfer of energy in nature, a phenomenon fundamental to Balula's work. Davide BALULA FR The works in this series are composed of two binary elements: a frame containing the residue of burnt charcoal and a second frame containing a canvas printed with the burnt charcoal. In groups of two, three or four frames, these 'paintings' are placed together in a positive and negative relationship, rather like photography or engraving. The charcoal-making process is slow and steady, requiring a gradual increase and decrease in heat so that the wood is not turned to ash, but retains the potential to burn again; the burnt paintings thus consider the cyclical, almost alchemical transfer of energy in nature, a phenomenon fundamental to Balula's work. EN The works in this series are composed of two binary elements: a frame containing the burnt charcoal residue, and a second frame containing a canvas printed with the burnt charcoal. In groups of two, three or four frames, these "paintings" are placed together in a positive and negative relationship, much as in photography or printmaking. The charcoal-making process is slow and steady, requiring a gradual increase and decrease in heat so that the wood is not turned to ash, but retains the potential to burn again; the burnt paintings thus consider the cyclical, almost alchemical transfer of energy in nature, a phenomenon fundamental to Balula's work.