In Spazio a frammenti [Space in Fragments], Vanni pushes further into a personal grammar of abstraction, where field and fragment coexist in dynamic tension. Broad, opaque planes no longer serve as passive backgrounds but act as active agents in dialogue with intricate clusters of color. These jewel-like aggregations, part glyph, part architecture, do not construct volume but interrupt, perforate, or even peel back the surrounding plane, hinting at a hidden reality beneath the surface. The idea of the painting as a membrane begins to emerge.
In Spazio a frammenti [Space in Fragments], Vanni pushes further into a personal grammar of abstraction, where field and fragment coexist in dynamic tension. Broad, opaque planes no longer serve as passive backgrounds but act as active agents in dialogue with intricate clusters of color. These jewel-like aggregations, part glyph, part architecture, do not construct volume but interrupt, perforate, or even peel back the surrounding plane, hinting at a hidden reality beneath the surface. The idea of the painting as a membrane begins to emerge.
The composition's central gray form, suspended alongside an aqua-blue ground, appears torn or eroded at the edges by lines and chromatic bursts that suggest pressure from within. The surrounding field becomes fully autonomous, articulated by luminous zones, from icy aquas to blazing cadmiums, that punctuate the edges like chromatic aftershocks.
A vertical filament of pixel-like fragments climbs and descends the canvas, creating a subtle axis of symmetry. These micro-structures recall earlier checkerboard motifs but are now used less as optical devices and more as pathways or connective tissue between surface and void. The spatiality is no longer architectural but tectonic: ruptured, drifting, non-hierarchical. Color is deployed not to suggest volume but to animate the relationship between flatness and density. While echoes of Klee and Kandinsky remain perceptible in the charged relationship between line and field, the painting marks a further step away from structured abstraction toward a space governed by its own internal logic.
