Pesi e misure, 2001

A square drawn on the wall determines the size – both literally and figuratively – of the other elements at play. That is, a plexiglas sheet with a cut-out in the middle, hanging from the ceiling by two steel cables so that the cut-out corresponds to the position of the square drawn in pencil; a primed canvas, held horizontally in the cut-out of the plexiglas sheet, so that it corresponds to the median axis of the drawn square; and a crumpled sheet of drawing paper placed at the centre of the canvas.
The work features the elements that make up a painting, dispensed of their customary function, however. The canvas, which is perpendicular to the wall, acts as a support surface; the sheet, which is usually a two-dimensional screen of a drawing, is a three-dimensional body; the translucid sheet, rather than allowing an image to appear, becomes a blind window. This exchange of functions and positions is announced by the title, which by alluding to the “weights and measures” of a painting, emphasizes the “nonstandard” condition of the components.
The same theme was developed, albeit in different terms, in a version from the same year (GPO-0863) and in a variant made in 2006 (GPO-0948).