Texture is strongly related to such concepts as consistency, surface, structure.
The concept of Texture can be easily perceived and codified, apparently. Texture is the element that catches the viewer's gaze, her/his retina, and since the eye is the primary element in the relationship viewer/artwork, the texture becomes a determinant factor in the observation process.
Looking at an artwork and its consistency, the viewer's hand can not do much, her/his eyes must develop a tactile quality.
In the virtual age, with the new technologies and with the new and sophisticated materials, the osmosis between the digital display and the artwork's surface generates a decrease of the materic element and subsequently it takes a new aspect: slick, liquid, flat. The artist is therefore tempted to generate an elusive object. To what extent is the artist worried to be too much invasive in her/his artwork?
Zygmunt Bauman in Liquid Fear states: "The most technologically equipped generation in human history is the generation most haunted by feelings of insecurity and helplessness."
A possible condition for the human being is to feel overwhelmed by technology, by anxiety to dominate, collect and classify every information.
How does the artist react to Bauman's statement? The artist perfectly interprets the present and in a certain way predicts the future: how does she/he react to that huge technological equipment?
To what extent is the artist assaulted by the fast and "Liquid modernity" and tempted to escape from himself? Is it possible to not obbey to that "liquid" aesthetic and be at the same time able to read and communicate the contemporaneity? Can the artist put herself/himself in the middle?
The project Texture and Liquidity tends to analyze ten artistic positions, on one hand putting a light on the handcrafted aspect, through the use of paint, resins, gauzes, concrete etc.; on the other hand are considered all the possible conceptual translations, like the possibility of an ethereal, antimateric interpretation of the concept of Texture.
Putting aside the primary relevance of the contents and of the communicative origin, this project focuses the attention on the idea of Texture that each artist has pursued, remembering Friedrich Hegel quote: "There is nothing deeper than what appears on the surface".
Vincenzo Della Corte
Artists:
The concept of Texture can be easily perceived and codified, apparently. Texture is the element that catches the viewer's gaze, her/his retina, and since the eye is the primary element in the relationship viewer/artwork, the texture becomes a determinant factor in the observation process.
Looking at an artwork and its consistency, the viewer's hand can not do much, her/his eyes must develop a tactile quality.
In the virtual age, with the new technologies and with the new and sophisticated materials, the osmosis between the digital display and the artwork's surface generates a decrease of the materic element and subsequently it takes a new aspect: slick, liquid, flat. The artist is therefore tempted to generate an elusive object. To what extent is the artist worried to be too much invasive in her/his artwork?
Zygmunt Bauman in Liquid Fear states: "The most technologically equipped generation in human history is the generation most haunted by feelings of insecurity and helplessness."
A possible condition for the human being is to feel overwhelmed by technology, by anxiety to dominate, collect and classify every information.
How does the artist react to Bauman's statement? The artist perfectly interprets the present and in a certain way predicts the future: how does she/he react to that huge technological equipment?
To what extent is the artist assaulted by the fast and "Liquid modernity" and tempted to escape from himself? Is it possible to not obbey to that "liquid" aesthetic and be at the same time able to read and communicate the contemporaneity? Can the artist put herself/himself in the middle?
The project Texture and Liquidity tends to analyze ten artistic positions, on one hand putting a light on the handcrafted aspect, through the use of paint, resins, gauzes, concrete etc.; on the other hand are considered all the possible conceptual translations, like the possibility of an ethereal, antimateric interpretation of the concept of Texture.
Putting aside the primary relevance of the contents and of the communicative origin, this project focuses the attention on the idea of Texture that each artist has pursued, remembering Friedrich Hegel quote: "There is nothing deeper than what appears on the surface".
Vincenzo Della Corte
Artists:
Alfredo Aceto, Antonio Della Corte, Corinna Gosmaro, Lauren Keeley, Axel Koschier, Lorenzo Pace, Edoardo Piermattei, Erik Saglia, Francesco Snote, Graham Wilson
April 8, 2016
