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PREMISE TO THE SERIES
This video is part of a series. I consider the concept of overall series to prevail over the single video. My goal is to create matrices, coded processes that allow us to study images, photos or videos. The starting point is always a real, documentary, representative and, to date, image of the organic natural world. I insert the video (or the photo) in a certain pattern-matrix, and a product of the series comes out. I then apply the same pattern to other videos, and by confronting the results I study the Fundamental Aesthetic structure of those moving images. The single product, the single video, is not so important. Some come out better, others worse - in the sense that some are more pleasantly watchable, while others are just studies with little or no individual aesthetic relevance. But this is exactly the point for me: the study of images.
These videos are also carefully designed for any physical set-ups, for a coordinated vision. With a plan relating to the sound aspect in development.
A fundamental element of these videos is that they become for me, as I said, matrices of new content. What comes out of these processes is the basis for further work that I am doing: a representation - the starting video - becomes a non-representative image, and this image then becomes material for further representation, and thus, potentially, to infinity. The screenshots, then processed, are for me images worthy of a frame: they are “produced”, because they are chosen to be such, to be hung on the wall. On these images I am proceeding to further digital static reworkings, and to physical works on wood with acrylic colors, plaster and other materials.
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ONTOLOGICAL STUDY N02 - MATRIX B
The starting point of this work is a representation, a photo. On this basis, a series of visual alterations develops, nevertheless not modifying what I found myself calling the "fundamental aesthetic structure": the visual rhythm of the form, the alternation of lights and shadows organized within the painting, which I believe to be what makes an image “work” - the golden section, so to speak, is one of these relationships; I focus on organic images, trying to understand how among 100 photos of the same tree, some have an aesthetic relevance and others don't: some of them work as an "image" themselves, others only as a representation of the tree. This transition from representation to image is the foundation of my work, not just this video. In a word, I try to propose an epochè of the representation to get to the true aesthetic essence of the visual material.
This video in particular wants to destroy the representation to bring out the pure image, and then take the shreds of the representation, now a new image without an object to represent, and make it material for new images. New shapes, new colors, new designs. Everything new but nothing invented, always and only modified material, rearranged, reassembled - as our imagination does.
This video wants to work on the fundamental aesthetic structure and propose the path that perception takes in our consciousness: from physical sensation to the fantastic reworking of the perceived object once the image has "detached" from the object in our consciousness, when the representation is nothing more than a pure image and behaves in our unconscious as a pure form, pre-rational but not at all irrational. Because every mental image deriving from our perception then continues its life of conscience as a pure and non-representative image, in that psychological context that we can call "unconscious"
