Having undertaken training with Chinese master painters, French-born Stibio’s practice revolves around patience, control and an astute awareness of time. Stibio seeks to construct in his work a new topography of space. The abstract forms and colours that emerge suggest a distorted, distant realm that shimmers with endless, complex spatial arrangements.
For Stibio, the landscape is a psychology and philosophy class. By embracing everyday challenges and temptations he incorporates personal responses within his meticulous and patiently organised landscapes. In so doing he presents the emotional and spiritual experience interwoven with the terrestrial landscape.
Flinders Lane Gallery
7 October to 25 October, 2014
Melbourne
Sitting by Some Drying Ponds Roberto I Love You, 2014, natural pigments, shredded documents and rice paper on canvas, 110 x 110cm
Courtesy the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
