Pascal - Study for nuclear exploration

The devastation wrought by World War II left a profound mark on Western civilization, which in the visual arts also resulted in an inability to communicate. For some artists, this challenge resulted in a total rejection of any visual language, which led to the birth of Informal Art. The various Informal movements are certainly connected to American Abstract Expressionism, especially with regard to gestural elements, but they go further in their rejection of any figurative element, even geometric. Their research focuses instead on the materials from which their works are composed. Pascal's Informal aesthetic revolves around so-called "nuclear painting," the desire of a group of artists to reconstruct, on the medium of their artwork, a nuclear landscape. Thus, drawing on the Spatialist poetics regarding the perception of energies in the atmosphere, nuclear artists like Sergio Dangelo focused their attention on the existence and movement of atomic particles.

In keeping with the general principles of Informal Art, Pascal's pictorial language distances itself from both figurative and abstract art. According to his nuclearist conception, to capture the movement and existence of atomic particles on canvas, he must definitively detach himself from phenomenal reality, that is, from the reality perceived by the senses. Thus, what Pascal creates, in an absolutely concrete manner, is a world born of the unconscious, yet born of a profound fascination with the infinitely small and invisible that moves in our atmosphere: the atom. This fascination leads the artist to define various types of nuclear landscapes with a cold and rational appearance, in which the presence of extensive chromatic zones with a compact pictorial layer is a constant. In these environments, Pascal identifies the movements of the particles, which, depending on the case, can take on mechanical characteristics, and where the spherical element plays a prominent role.

The artist Pascal stands out for his highly experimental pictorial production. His poetics move between abstraction and informal art, but much of his work draws on the "Nuclear Painting" movement.

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