via san Francesco d’Assisi n.7
Rodengo Saiano
Brescia
25050
Italy
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Once upon a time, art was a burning fire, a path of lava stones leading to beauty. It was Michelangelo sculpting his statues from stone, or Van Gogh painting his sunflowers in the fields of France. It was Monet capturing the light on his canvas, or Picasso scrambling forms to show us the new world.
But then art evolved, like a river changing its course. It became free, irreverent, experimental. It became Kandinsky's abstract art and Kosuth's conceptual art, which questioned the very ideas we held about it. Mutation after mutation, change after change, art continued to evolve, to change its forms and to modify the means and tools that had generated it over the centuries, making it reborn in ever new and unprecedented guises.
Thanks to the advent of technology and its slow insinuation into every area of our lives, today we can say we have encountered a new type of art: digital art, sought after, created and conceived among intangible bits and glowing screens, which finds its origins in the invention of the computer, in the discovery of technology, in the possibility of using light and color to create works of art that exist only in cyberspace.
From these premises was born the group of young artists PZeroDigit, which manages to make digital painting its center of gravity. As if it were a treasure chest of different poetics and creative ideas, PZeroDigit aims to become, for the artists who are part of it, the base from which to create works capable of being containers of ever-changing thoughts, born from the freedom - inherent in the very nature of this group - to naturally explore one's own creativity.
All the works created digitally by PZeroDigit challenge conventions and open the doors to a world of shapes and colors never seen before. Generated by digital processing, the works are subsequently created with cutting-edge technologies and methods.
It is precisely in the act of printing the works on a physical medium and giving them a tactile and visual reworking different from that which generated them that one of the principles of PZeroDigit's work is hidden: as in a virtuous circle, human experiential corporeality enters the virtual and emerges from it to give life to something that, once again, is reborn in a state of pure materiality.
To borrow the words from the mouth of a well-known philosopher, we are faced with an eternal return, which manages to reveal a need inherent and hidden in man.
From this hybrid experience between digital and physical, the work cannot emerge unscathed.
As if we were faced with the visual enunciation of Dirac's equation, the two systems that have interacted with each other, virtual and corporeal, can no longer be described as two distinct and separate worlds, but instead become an indistinguishable ontological unicum. Thus a new category of works of art is born.
the work DIGIPHYSICAL.
Digital painting can certainly help give rise to a process of democratization of art, achievable also through the creation and conception of workshops within schools, where knowledge and art are unleashed. Technology, in fact, allows anyone to create works of value and this way of making art, inclusive and open to all, does not discriminate by age or social status, since everyone can create and express their personality.
The sensitivity acquired with respect to images, in fact, makes it possible to enhance creative thinking and to develop a communicative ability characterized by greater emotionality, essential within today's communication society. Art, only at this point, manages to become a driving collective experience and the school thus transforms into a place of sharing, where differences are resources, and creativity a value to be cultivated. And so, between screens and colors, between digital images and virtual brushstrokes, students become artists who look to the future with greater awareness of their own personality and potential.
via san Francesco d’Assisi n.7
Rodengo Saiano
Brescia
25050
Italy
©