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JoDD`s transformel painting brings art back down to the bare earth, to that primal material horizon which is the source and the meaning of transformation and be­coming. The artist does not make use of the traditional tools of painting; he requires no pencil or paints for his »informel« compositions, but use ashes, stone dust, bitu­men, graphite and pigment dust, as if he were creating afresh an image of the fun­damentals of the world.

Works by JoDD also recall Klee´s definition in »The Theory of Creativity and Form« of the »prehistory of the visible«. This classifies art as one of the foundations of aware­ness, recognizing the innermost aspect of objects, the »mutual earthly roots«. It succeeds in advancing beyond appearance to a stage where there is no need of clarity and everything in constantly involved in a process of becoming.

The forms and symbols which appear are traces, ideas; they do not confine the work to one ultimate message. The timelessness of the hatching, the elliptical scenario of a mythology constantly altering its significant by exchanging the object - these are aspects of an art which emerges from the night of collective memory, which appears from a twilight of feeling which has made change into its only certainty. His art is not material art, it is the idea which manifests itself in the density off matter, it is the expectation of the world.

Valerio Deho,  Bologna