Davide Balliano

Cardi Gallery is pleased to announce Camino, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Davide Balliano (b. 1983, Turin) in its Ibiza seasonal space, on view from July 22 through August 30.
Bringing together recent paintings alongside a new group of intimate gouache drawings, Camino reflects the ongoing evolution of Balliano’s distinctive, minimalist visual language. The show takes its name from the Spanish word for “path” or “way,” and unfolds as a meditation on the artist’s sustained engagement with abstraction as a means of exploring existential themes of time, erosion and transformation.

Balliano’s richly textured paintings are built through an iterative process that is grounded in material experimentation. The artist applies layers of plaster, gesso and acrylic on linen canvas, and then partially removes, sands down, and scratches them away, so that the finished surface reads as the result of a gradual, archaeological excavation.