In his first solo exhibition in an Italian gallery, Davide Balliano presents a series of new paintings on wood and ceramic sculptures.With several solo exhibitions in New York, Berlin, Paris and recently London, Balliano seems to consolidate its organic style approaching a new formal maturity.If previously the relationship with history, the ambivalent transparency of the glass, and the bare architectural references constituted the main body of his work, today we can see a further consolidation in the research of the artist which, started from photography, formed itself through painterly intervention on book pages, performances and installations.A research based on the use of different media aimed to achieve a minimal and organic composition, veined by transcendental suggestions and by the dialogue with a void that takes the form of intuited metaphysical subject.The almost poetic relationship with architecture, which in ruins finds a new monumental identity free from the original function, the use of geometry as a tool for translation, and the Romanic references, give to Balliano’s painting an almost sculptural scent.Plaster, gesso and lacquer builds the work as if it had been placed on a wall, and the surface of the paintings, profoundly flat, seems to rise from it only by the wooden support that distinguishes their elegant structure. Through a stratified coverage of geometric shapes, often born from the decomposition of archetypal forms as the circle and arc, Balliano’s searches for the perfect balance between absence and presence, between empty and full invisibly, and in this way he changes the gallery space transforming the floor in white as a sign of absence or nothing that gives a sense of floating to the objects in the exhibition.In the same way the ceramic sculptures feed from the tension of the encounter between the illusory solidity of the shape with the fragility of the material. Contrast that comes back in the dialogue with the physicality of objects, which seem to be containers of an emptiness, shelters for a silent presence, the cornerstones of an architecture questioningly votive.An icon that seeks identity in the dialogue between man and the universe around him.