Montag, 9. November 2009
The Vitruvian Man
"The Vitruvian Man" is a spray work on paper 140x150 cm, composed from 6 papers 70x50 cm, inspired by the homonymous drawing realized from Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1490.
My Vitruvian Man, 150 x 140 cm, Spray Paint
The Vitruvian Man is not just a study of human proportion, but it represents the graphic synthesis of the harmony of the human being in the cosmos, according to the universalist spirit of that period. It depicts a male human body in two superimposed positions and simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square , according to the rules of the Aura Section. In this way Leonardo finds in the human being itself the solution of the impossible mathematic problem of squaring the circle. In this symbolic representation the man is the measure of all things, and the cosmos is at human scale.
In my artwork the Vitruvian man is partially decomposed and single elements of its picture reproduced themselves beyond the borders of its microcosm, defined from the main circle and square.
What is going to happen to the Vitruvian man in this age of digitalization and "virtualization" that affects also the art, especially the painting, the first among all arts and sciences as Leonardo used to assert?
Probably to survive at this digital pandemic outbreak it must mutate himself.
Series "Broken Life"
Those spray works are part of a new artistic project called "Brocken Life". The aim of the project is to denounce the phenomena of pseudo-legalized sexual violence against children and women, especially in the poorer countries. Let's think at the sexual Tourism in Brazil or Thailand for instance. Even though mine is just one voice that joints the others, at least I try.
Ho utilizzato i colori spray (le bombolette) perchè restituiscono più drammaticità all'opera. Lo spray infatti è stato utilizzato fin dall'inizio come mezzo di espressione spontanea dei ragazzi della low-class new-yorkese per rendersi visibili alla società americana e denunciare il proprio disagio sociale.
In chains
Business Trip
Project:The Digital Garten
In questa prima decade del 21-esimo secolo stiamo assistendo al fiorire di una nuova era: L'Era Digitale. Oggigiorno informazione, comunicazione, business, scienza, arte e le attività d’intrattenimento stanno viaggiando sulla stessa piattaforma binaria: la rete digitale. Sia si tratti solo di E-mail, Skype, Negozi Online, Facebook, Online TV o Giornali, I-tunes or Youtube, o addirittura di transazioni bancarie, prenotazione viaggi, Check-in, anche Sex ecc.
We are just at the beginning of a Digital Revolution dominated by high speed and the global exchange of information in the form of a digital signal. The human activities and knowledge are controlled by a binary code "1" and "0".
Based on this simple concept of "1" and "0", switch "on"/"off", "true"/ "false", "open"/ "close", we are reengineering the world and resetting our mind.
Siamo solo agli inizi di una rivoluzione digitale dominata da uno scambio, ad alta velocità e a scala globale, d’informazioni in forma di segnale digitale. Le attività e conoscenze umane sono controllate da un codice binario di "1" e "0".
Our existence is more and more wrapped up in and controlled by the digital world. I tried to describe/represent/illustrate/show this concept in the installation "The Digital Garden". It represents a metaphor of the flowering of digital technology and, as I explained before, of the new Digital Age. The flowers were made using CDs/DVDs as a stencil. In the '90s these were considered one of the first milestones of this new incoming digital era, at least for my generation.
La nostra esistenza è sempre più assorbita e controllata dal mondo digitale. Ho cercato di descrivere questo concetto nell'installazione "Il giardino digitale". Rappresenta una metafora del fiorire della tecnologia digitale, e come ho spiegato in precedenza, della nuova Era Digitale. I fiori sono fatti usando CD/DVD come stampo. Questi negli anni '90 erano, infatti, considerati una delle prime pietre miliari dell'era digitale ormai alle porte, almeno per la mia generazione.
The installation "The Digital Garden" consists of 4 Styrofoam panels 100x50 cm and one 100x100 cm, colored with spray-paint. It was realized for the first exhibition of the Modern Spray Art Group in the Gallery Treppenhaus in Erlangen (Germany).
The Digital Garden represents just the first step of a wider range Project exploring the state of art, development and consequences of the digitalization of the humanity.
L'installazione "Il Giardino Digitale" consiste in quattro pannelli di Polistirolo 100 x 50 cm e di uno 100x100 cm colorato con lo spray. E` stato realizzato in occasione della prima esibizione del Gruppo Modern Spray Art nella galleria Treppenhaus di Erlangen (in Germania).
"Domino-Galerie" 07. bis 09. November
Heute ist einer besondere Tag für die Weltgeschichte: Wir feiern 20 Jahre Mauerfall.
Das Mauerfall steht als Symbol der Freiheit weltweit.
Zum 20. Jahrestag des Mauerfalls werden am 9. November 2009 mehr als 1000 bemalte übermannshohe Segmente wie Dominosteine umfallen. Die rund zwei Kilometer lane Kette aus Kunststiffe-Teilen soll von Reichstag über das Brandenburger Tor bis zum Postdamer Platz reichen.
Ich bin auch dabei!