Ash

Conceived in the late 1990s, the Ash series recalls the accumulations of the Materic series, as in the work Supermateria/supermatter (1975), while denying its physical dimension.

The Ash works are ephemeral and site-specific installations, presences that compel reflection, taking the aspect of mandatory passages, as in the work Anattā (2011).

Consumo/consumption, 2004, installation, napkins, ash, 30x30, Cloister Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnica “Leonardo da Vinci”.
Project Il Fuoco/The Fire, Gruppo Koiné, in collaboration with Arte da mangiare mangiare Arte.

Invited to make a work on the relationship between art and food, he displays Consumption, an installation consisting of multiple white napkins with piles of ashes, arranged on the balcony of the hosting museum's cloister.

90+1, 2006, spruce sawdust, ash, paper, installation.
13 interventi/13 interventions, 2005 – 2006, Gruppo Koiné, Spazio Palomar.

90+1 is an installation composed of 91 piles of spruce sawdust and ash.
A tribute to the artist's father, the piles, placed on the ground, represent the years, traces of a life, of a work.
A single white paper, a moment of suspension.

Untitled, acrylics, ash, mixed media on mdf panel, 200x130.
Studio Piergiorgio Cazzaniga, Conversations about work, 2021, book edited by Andreu World.

Anattā, 2011, ash, site-specific installation, 200 x 600.
Project Forma Mentis, Serrone Villa Reale Monza.

Anattā, a Sanskrit term describing the Buddhist doctrine of the non-existence of a permanent individual self, is an ephemeral and mocking presence that compels the audience to confront the very sense of existence.
During the project Giornata della Memoria/day of memory 2013 in Forte Marghera,Venice, the ashes are scattered on the ground at the entrance of the exhibition space, forming a barrier, a mandatory passage where visitors must leave their own footprints.

Catalogue Forma Mentis Equilibri Sbilanciati/ unblanced equilibriums, Gruppo Koiné, Serrone Villa Reale Monza, 2011.