The gesture of painting within the cast works might be frozen and inanimate but this cryogenic stillness belies an inherent truth and integrity akin to, if not greater than, that of the raw gesture, left naked and free of encapsulation. In conceiving a process that involves such technical challenges, I am forced to revise my approach as to how to construct gesture. This highlights very real issues surrounding the time prior to and immediately after the ‘found’ moments I seek, during the resolution of a panel in readiness for casting.It is all a moment (but forever) by Luca Massimo Barbero, Paintings as sculpture exhibition, Lisson gallery, Milan, 2013