cypher number 19 - KOBLENZ
From the series “Code”, oil and graphite pencil on paper, 30 x 30 cm .
sabato 27 dicembre 2014
martedì 23 dicembre 2014
boston
cypher number 18 - BOSTON
From the series “Code”, oil and graphite pencil on paper, 30 x 30 cm .
venerdì 19 dicembre 2014
dallas
cypher number 17 - DALLAS
From the series “Code”, oil and graphite pencil
on paper, 30 x 30 cm . ORIGINAL SOLD.
A map is an
imprint, a sign of man in the landscape. An alien intelligence, observing our
cities from the great distances of the space, could interpret them as the
characters of an alphabet, sort of messages, a code of signs, each one different
from the other, each with its own meaning and its own syntax. This hypothetical
alien presence may not even realize that these cities have a purpose and a
function, which are the product of the way we have adapted to live on this
planet, but it could engage in an attempt to interpret this unknown language,
identifying the alphabet and associating to each character a precise meaning.
We will still be able to understand and share this new meanings, or will they have
lost any sense for us?
lunedì 15 dicembre 2014
giovedì 11 dicembre 2014
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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.
Original available for sale.
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martedì 9 dicembre 2014
imaginary map of turin
From the series “The earth seen from the space”, oil on canvas. 50 x
lunedì 1 dicembre 2014
The stars reflected in the eyes
Anything
that can be classified in a homogeneous series exerts an attraction on me and
an impulse to draw it. Perhaps what attracts me is the research of the variant,
the exploration of the rules that allow the inclusion of that group of objects
in a single set but giving to each object its uniqueness.
So I always liked to draw eyes. Individual eyes, wide eyes, groups of eyes,
half closed eyes. To change the expression or play with colors and decorations
as if it were a make-up, allows endless variations.
Even the
constellations in the sky are endless, and I drew these too, as if they were
geometric embroidery or imaginary and arbitrary warping created for the sole
purpose of interpreting a reality difficult to understand.
Then, when the
verse of a mawkish romantic song came into my thoughts
("The starlight is reflected in your eyes ..."), I could not resist to
create a new series, based on the union of those two, which although have nothing
to do with each other, related by the only fact of being homogeneous sets,
ready to be classified to quench the thirst of an artist that is anxious to
bring order into its chaotic imaginary world.
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