the pergola

"the pergola". Oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm, 1991. Original painting available for sale.

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Alphabet

From the series “Alphabet”, china ink on paper. 20 x 20 cm, 2010.

A barcode is the graphical representation of a series of numbers. What does creates the aesthetics of a bar code? It comes from lines, their thickness, the spacing.We can think of it as a language with its compositional rules, its grammar and its syntax.

I imagined to isolate these rules, separating them from the original purpose for which they were created, and I tried to change them gradually to invent a new language and perhaps new meanings.

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