Shade as a Sense of Rendering, 2024, Archivio Leonardi V-idea, Genoa, Italy.
Watercooling, 25x25cm, oil on canvas. Pattern, 142x150cm/25x40cm/25x40cm, digital painting, archival pigment print and acrylic on canvas. Motorcycle in spring night series of 3 20x20cm acrylic on canvas. Fluctuating Proxy, 85x125cm, digital painting, archival pigment print and acrylic on canvas. ISG scarfs 5 x 60x60cm, sublimation on organic pima cotton. Tower in Sunlit Cityscape, 35x35cm 300PPI TIFF, digital painting on 6" E-Ink color display.
What is a digital image file? And how does a digital image differ from a render, a print, or a painting? A file, as an artistic work, is already the original. From OLED to ACeP e-ink displays using alternating pigments, the evolution of screens has allowed digital images to come to life in ways comparable to industrial pigments revolutionizing painting.
In my journey, I have explored for many years the printing of my digital paintings and photographs on paper, fabrics, and canvas. These are displayed as complete installations, extending the gallery experience beyond the gallery itself.
Wandering through shopping malls as a child, discovering acrylic painting left a deep memory in me: a feeling linked to the poetry of rendering an image, even if it was just paint-by-numbers. These early experiences led me to learn non-toxic oil painting methods. At the same time, my first painting was made on MS Paint, something I will always remember as a magical and deeply personal space to express visual poetry.
The exhibition contains a series of paintings and prints created over the course of a year, exploring the physical rendering of my files. Personal moments come from photography, while the digital paintings, whose surfaces originate from an initial painting on a tablet, evolve through numerous iterations of algorithmic processes.
Titles such as "Fluctuating Proxy" reference the internal workings of computer proxy filtering—processing minor errors, corrections, and the sparkling flow of information lights, based on the unentropic data of 0s and 1s. "Watercooling" refers to the cold water used in dissipating heat in computing, while "Pattern" directly addresses the abstract surface of the works.
Watercooling, 25x25cm, oil on canvas. Pattern, 142x150cm/25x40cm/25x40cm, digital painting, archival pigment print and acrylic on canvas. Motorcycle in spring night series of 3 20x20cm acrylic on canvas. Fluctuating Proxy, 85x125cm, digital painting, archival pigment print and acrylic on canvas. ISG scarfs 5 x 60x60cm, sublimation on organic pima cotton. Tower in Sunlit Cityscape, 35x35cm 300PPI TIFF, digital painting on 6" E-Ink color display.
What is a digital image file? And how does a digital image differ from a render, a print, or a painting? A file, as an artistic work, is already the original. From OLED to ACeP e-ink displays using alternating pigments, the evolution of screens has allowed digital images to come to life in ways comparable to industrial pigments revolutionizing painting.
In my journey, I have explored for many years the printing of my digital paintings and photographs on paper, fabrics, and canvas. These are displayed as complete installations, extending the gallery experience beyond the gallery itself.
Wandering through shopping malls as a child, discovering acrylic painting left a deep memory in me: a feeling linked to the poetry of rendering an image, even if it was just paint-by-numbers. These early experiences led me to learn non-toxic oil painting methods. At the same time, my first painting was made on MS Paint, something I will always remember as a magical and deeply personal space to express visual poetry.
The exhibition contains a series of paintings and prints created over the course of a year, exploring the physical rendering of my files. Personal moments come from photography, while the digital paintings, whose surfaces originate from an initial painting on a tablet, evolve through numerous iterations of algorithmic processes.
Titles such as "Fluctuating Proxy" reference the internal workings of computer proxy filtering—processing minor errors, corrections, and the sparkling flow of information lights, based on the unentropic data of 0s and 1s. "Watercooling" refers to the cold water used in dissipating heat in computing, while "Pattern" directly addresses the abstract surface of the works.