AS 2,103 OP | Robert Pan

Resin, mixed media

2021 - 2022

40.5 x 35.5 cm

Matter and stratification are the protagonists in Robert Pan's works, which involve a careful and artificial analytical operation, which first consists of constantly dripping layers of pigments and resins onto mesh supports, alternating the superposition of the materials with corrosion, smoothing and polishing.
A slow and continuous work of addition and subtraction, which harmonizes it with the sequences and rhythms of Eastern philosophies: a sort of mantra, repeated over months, years, allowing the color and resin to take shape, solidify, and then be sanded, alternating between greater and lesser degrees of smoothness, so that in certain very specific points, the material and symbolic elements emerge "from the abyss" and rise to the surface. Thus appears a universe of colors, shapes, microorganisms, microcosms of infinite hues, allowing us to travel with our eyes, but also with our imagination, leading us to other worlds, perhaps sidereal, light-years away, or closer, present within each of us, deep within our dream visions or our eyes, and which Robert Pan manages to bring to the surface.