Alessandro Violi
By Loft, October 1st, 2008,in | No Comments »
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Computers have become through the years my preferred tool. Thanks to “progress” all of my art time has been absorbed – twisted – enhanced by this body buster brain accessory. The reason I am in the US and not in Italy, where I was born, is the craving for access to this tool. That’s the west, that’s the frontier. My investigations in landscape- the virtual space of 3D computer graphics- have sucked me in. That void attracts me. My landscape is now to investigate the frontier between natural and digital, between real and virtual. The final products of my art these days are digital content with its fantastic potential of reproduction, of growth, and of change. I love photography and photography is still a lot of what I do- except now in 3D, not in reality anymore. And procedural painting is a lot like what I do as well– abstractions, displacements, distortions- the forces of virtual matter, like those of a brush pushing its way over canvas.
Linear Motion
Every moment in time happens at a different point in space. Time is the linear motion- the fourth dimension- in which particles add their own variables to their linear existence. The friction of this motion permeates outward to the other 3 dimensions, producing turbulence, heat, and probably life.
* Note about the video: “CRANE”, DVD, 2 minutes.
Crane is about motion, about how movement transfers through friction, and about heat and friction as generators of life
Bio
Alessandro Violi was born in Trieste, Italy, as a Taurus, around the half of the last century, or toward the end of the other millennium, after years in Rome he moved to LA in 1995, gaining residence in USA as “alien artist of extraordinary ability”. His work as well as his life, is a vagabond-ic voyage.
His art ranges from theatrical sets and installations, which were awarded the most prestigious award in Italy, the UBU award, to his recent R&D art direction, in real time 3D computer graphics, with the company he co-created: 3DSite, Inc. Violi is also owner and organizer of Mario’s Furniture, the first gallery in Los Angeles to be specialized in video art installations. He is a pioneer of the Internet. His activities as a photographer, filmmaker, 3D animator, designer, and Art Director (which have been crossing and mixing continuously in his work) have been presented in many illustrious institutions, public and private, such as:
ICA – London, UK
Art Academy – Dusseldorf, Germany
University of Sidney – Sidney, Australia
Kunsthalle – Koln, Germany
Kunstmuseum – Essen, Germany
State TV – Gratz, Austria
Milan Politecnico – Milano, Italia
Clemond Ferrand Animation Festival
Sulmona Film Festival
Los Angeles Italia Film Festival
Auditorium – Rome, Italy
Studio HP3 Roma 2006
Mario’s Furniture – Los Angeles, CA
Cirrus Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
LA Freewaves – Los Angeles, CA
Topanga e Topango – Topanga, CA
Galleria Peccolo – Livorno, Italy
Bond Gallery – New York, USA
NoSeNo Gallery – New York, USA
Palazzo Comunale – Cagliari, Italy
Palazzo delle Exposizioni – Roma, Italy
Piazza della Signoria -Firenze, Italy
Galleria Il Fotogramma – Roma, Italy