In recent times we are witnessing a hybridization between reality and virtuality. Art transforms reality, subverts it and offers it to us as an instrument of critical reinvention of modern times.
For Giuseppe Lo Schiavo, reality is a fluid and fragile phenomenon seeking to redefine it. He uses new technologies to conceive his photographs as elaborated sets of a virtual space, creating the illusion of an open window (both metaphorical and literal) on a new reality and evoking images which are ancient and futuristic, artificial and natural at the same time.
Edouard Taufenbach’s work is designed by the successive repetition of an initial photo, exploring the idea of small and intimate memories and turning them into a great work, creating an ideal world. It is here that the past undresses these inhabiting cathartic forms, ruling the chaos of emotions in a single stylized balance.
By using an ancestral technique, Riccardo Ajossa produces delicate Korean handmade papers coloured with organic pigments from Central Italy. The pieces of paper catch the eye as a surprise that comes from something very similar to meditation, allowing the natural elements to surface in an ancestral manner and evoking a kind of quietude that one rarely sees.
In Dan Hallman’s ongoing series titled Textural, the artist uses phrases or ideas from which he has been inspired and then paints them on canvas in a graphic manner which enables viewers to have a cheeky laugh, thought or tear. While each one has its own personal story and inspiration to the artist, he believes the viewer completes the work with their own reaction and interpretat