Riccardo Ajossa’s pieces of paper achieved with the ancient Korean Hanji technique. For the sake of simplicity this is defined a technique, but actually its genesis has rhythm, gestures and sounds that are rather more similar to a ceremony: first the bark is cleaned and boiled, then the paper is beaten with heavy sticks and the cadence produced generates a communitarian spell of work. This job must necessarily be done concertedly in order to achieve the paper.
The big pieces of paper emerge, alone, with their sole presence: they themselves are the object and the subject of the artistic achievement: besides the pieces of paper there is another important element and that is the natural colors obtained from plants. In the color, left free to express itself, we see the physical world in which
the artist is engrossed. Near his home are the fields where he gathers the eucalyptus bark, elderberries and pomegranates from which he then squeezes the pigments, boils them and fixes them with salts in his skillful, cadenced and hardworking manner typical of those who live in
harmony with their surroundings.