Melbourne-based artist, Carlo Golin, describes his work as faithful to the ‘Old Masters’ Italian tradition, but his contemporary still life paintings of voluptuous over-sized fruits roll seamlessly into the modern kitchen, beckoning to be devoured. Golin’s fruit assemblages are painted to emphasise their oversized sculptural presence. Commonly the artist's penchant has been for segregated groupings of plums or peaches. Spilling abandonedly across rustic timber surfaces, the fruit defy the dramatic formality of backgrounds painted in evocatively medieval lighting. Golin is passionate about refining his subject and honouring its form - "With these new paintings I am continuing a pre-occupation I've had for quite a while now and that is how this type of subject matter explores stillness and its by-product, silence. The fruit is arranged, soft collisions occur, areas bruise, weights compete and gravity makes it all settle into negotiable shapes. As decay is inevitable, everything will change and it's somewhere in this state that my process of depiction begins. Studies are made, some remain as such, while others increase or decrease in scale to emphasise particular concerns such as weight, balance, structure."