No. 11 / 20 · Movements, by Gastón Solís
Il Corpo Assente
the absent body
Galleria Christian Stein, Studiolo · Torino · 1984

A black silhouette against red and white. The figure reduced to its essence. Il corpo assente, the absent body. But the body is not absent. The body leans forward in the posture of someone making room for something to pass. Everything that is not essential has been evacuated from the frame, and what has been evacuated has been evacuated for good reason. What remains is the minimum required to constitute a human event.
The word sit comes from the Latin root sed-. The same root gives sediment, which refers to the solids that separate from a suspension when it is allowed to sit undisturbed.
Provenance
The artist’s studio, Milan; Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, by 1980; private collection, Como, 1980–1996; lent by the above to Galleria Christian Stein, Turin, for Il Corpo Assente, 1984; the present collection, 1996.



















