Video-performance. Video recording, HD 10:7, colour, Stereo, 9’23”
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Staring at a bucolic landscape, natural, untouched, you can reach that peace of mind and amazing astonishment to understand that mankind create nothing. Art is nothing without nature, everything comes from the Earth and shines under the Sun. You do not make a landscape immortal by fixing it on a canvas, nature is immortal anyway.
Doing nothing but contemplating the cosmos is the most pleasant and balanced approach to eternity, tranquillity is all we need to reach the same harmony and to feel immanence to the immensity.

The 70 × 100 cm unpainted prepared stretched linen canvas featured in the performance is entitled “bit picture” and it is archived as a unique original ready-made.

untouched canvas

A minimalist conceptual procedure artwork to make users feel their illusory prospects of changing the rule, the system.

The program has a “bug” (backdoor) that unlocks a hidden feature to hack the system and break the rule: find the one cracking customisation among 54,116,587,929,600 possible combinations by moving the sliders.

Talking about the internet, especially regarding web “2.0” front-end interfaces to interact with the system (institutions and the mainstream), the user customising preferences are actually negligible and distracting frills. You can customise the aesthetics as you like, but the underlying rule always stays the same: flavours, candy coatings that serve to disguise or to make the ruling system more cute or looking petty, just like painting a prison’s walls of pink. Many amusing applications and funny gadgets are already used by rulers to control you by knowing you. The rule is always the same: people are the prey, but in most cases they are not even aware, they do not even know who is the ruling predator.

Custom Rule is the pachinko of internet users.
http://aaaabeegimnnnrs.net/customrule/


custom rule

Two videos in sequence, HD 1:1, colour, silent, 6’40”
A video diptych, two little desecrating and pop cell-animations made just as divertissements, besides as golems to counteract some evil consciences.
Debugging: Chronology of debugging: time naturally fixes the error at its source.
Deus agni (God of the lambs): Crowning and nailing of Megaera: Lot’s lambs avenge lots of lambs.


debugging + deus agni

A selection of mixed-media and paper/digital collages from my portfolio. Beware: some adult pictures.

COLONY, 2014
Collage and mixed technique on paper, 40 × 30 cm, ed. 3

internet of thingers, 2020
Digital collage and graphics, print on paper 20 × 45 cm, ed. 9

ordinary goods, 2012
Series of sixteen photographic manipulations, mixed technique on packages, different sizes, ed. 3
ordinary goods #05	~ 380 × 210 mm
ordinary goods #12	~ 141 × 149 mm
ordinary goods #16	~ 230 × 141 mm

the pandering of Pinocchio, 2014
Series of four collages and mixed technique on packing paper, 40 × 30 cm, ed. 3
the pandering of Pinocchio #3 (Julio Iglesias)

the sounding of the labia, 2014
Series of four collage and mixed technique on packing paper, 40 × 30 cm, ed. 3
the sounding of the labia #4 (Alicia Keys)

the perfect husband, 2013
Collage on paper, 60x40 cm, ed. 3

the perfect wife, 2013
Collage on paper, 60x40 cm, ed. 3

this is a cult, 2014
Mixed technique on packing paper, 25.5 × 20 cm, ed. 3


Selected mixed media and collages

Human, listless soul incapable of producing natural splendour beauty, whose remains are colourful polluting waste, sterile spores of a synthetic world, all things people strove for so engagedly, pseudo-protocols of communication leading toward separation instead, toward incomprehension, toward commodification of the being, final damnation: all is a thing by now.

All my art is my passion, but I chose this video especially because it depicts objects linked with passion, and first of all it's related to my other passion beside art: environmentalism.

Technically speaking, I used a simple HD digital camera and some axis motorisation tricks to catch the spinning floating objects, which have been composed by chroma-keying over the cosmic backgrounds that have been hand painted with the Suminagashi technique.

You can watch the full video here: http://aaaabeegimnnnrs.net/cinema



panspermia

Originalism art manifesto:
http://thecriticalartist.blogspot.com/2020/06/originalism-manifesto.html


Originalism - An art manifesto

The Fourth Paradise
2013
Digital graphics, print on paper, 25x20 cm
Ed. of 3

"The Fourth Paradise" is my answer to "Third Paradise" by Michelangelo Pistoletto. Paradise can’t be an enclave, an enclosure where to herd. I am fed of logos, either old or new, minds imprisoned inside sets and schemes, rules for the next worthless revolution.

The Fourth Paradise

how the world saved me, 2015
Drawing, felt-tip pen on paper, 240 × 260 mm
Edition of 3
The golem representing what in the world saved me.

how i saved myself, 2015
Drawing, felt-tip pen on paper, 350 × 235 mm
Edition of 3
The golem representing how i saved myself.

how the world saved itself, 2015
Drawing, felt-tip pen on paper, 430 × 215 mm
Edition of 3
The golem representing how the world saved itself.

how i saved the world, 2015
Drawing, felt-tip pen on paper, 468 × 237 mm
Edition of 3
The golem with which i saved the world.


how I ... / how the world...

"La condition inhumaine" (The unhuman condition), 2010-2012
Oil (non-toxic pigments) on canvas, 100 × 81 cm and acrylic on wooden frame 115 × 96 cm.
Contemporary reinterpretation of the artwork “La condition humaine” of 1933 by René Magritte.

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