08 Nov Roberto Sanesi

(“Corriere della Sera”, Milan, 8 November 1992)

…The relatively unusual aspect of these works is due to the fact that at the very centre of the geometrical vortex in motion, in what one must suppose is the hub around which the whole composition rotates, the space literally crumbles away in a shapeless smudge, almost a nebula. Gard, in that focal point which one imagined as ideal, “abstract”, suddenly, by way of contrast, places a from that belongs to gestuality, to impulse, to colour as a perceptible body, to impression. This contradictory interference provokes a completely different overall reading of the forms, and makes us realise that light, even in a symbolic sense, is the real protagonist. The sense of instability or bewilderment previously noted thus derives from an open possibility: conceptual, constructive, mathematical light; light-colour whit naturalist allusions; light presented as spiritual energy.