Tommaso Panzeri
INTUIZIONE E INTENZIONE mono-prints of the new millenium
MONOPRINT • The monoprint is a form of printmaking where the image can only be made once, unlike most printmaking which allows for multiple originals. • An impression is printed from a reprintable block, such as an etched plate or woodblock, but in such a way that only one of its kind exists, for example by incorporating unique hand-colouring or collage.
Originally conceived as autonomous monotypes, I later decided that ‘INTUIZIONE/INTENZIONE’ should only be seen together as a single piece made of multiples. I imagine identity as a blend of individuality, collectivity, past, and present. Featuring a myriad of gestures becoming static on paper, it offers a visual analog to something I term ‘purposeless gesture, a systematic untangling of the effects of time, movement, and geography on the formation of personal identity. The piece exists only at a conceptual level: on its return to the real, it is meant to self disassembly in time. Only a record of the action will remain but the unity will be dismantled in time, either naturally or by deliberate action.
• The term can also refer to etchings which are inked and wiped in an expressive, not precisely repeatable manner; to prints made from a variety of printing elements that change from one impression to the next; or to prints that are painted or otherwise reworked by hand either before or after printing.
I use paper not solely as a surface but as a medium itself. Errors are
• The beauty of mono-printing lies in its spontaneity and its allowance for combinations of printmaking, painting and drawing media.
beyond my control. I do not wish to have control at all, at any stage,
an equal part of a piece as any deliberate gesture and have the necessity of calibrating the inner connections of the work with my own perception of it. I do not make any efforts to reduce them, I actually welcome the fact that things happen in a certain moment or period of time, apart of the openness of the initial mantra-like sound of the preparation.
I just happen to be present in that very same place at that very same moment. My art transcends any decision, intuition, and intention: it matures autonomously and grows till its energy flows onto the next piece. This process goes on indefinitely. What is left is one massive unity of non-intentional episodes. I leave it to rest every time I shut the door of the studio behind me, but there is something new every time I go back to it.
Tommaso Panzeri
 c.so Carbonara 9b/32 - 16125 - Genova - Italy
 +39 345 469 1798 - tommaso.panzeri@gmail.com