Around 2000 I started making oil on canvas paintings out of desktop icons and software logos.
Folders and desktop icons are elements of the best-known shared landscape and above all they are links to tools for an active participation in shaping the landscape’s form and content. Desktop icons since mid 80’s revolutionized the use of computers, making them accessible to the masses. This awareness has meant that the graphic user interface (GUI) become a point of departure of my artistic research.
My attempt was to frame our society painting those software icons that were contributing to make quick changes in our world. These include icons and logos of Napster, Bear Share, Photoshop, Java, Explorer, Red Hat Linux, Adobe etc.
A lot of people spend their time in front of a computer, interacting and overlapping between personal digital relationships and human relationships. Desktop icons are the user’s digital map and as such they write a type of social genome.
I also painted desktop’s wallpapers: those classic landscapes like a grass field with clouds or a ladybug on a leaf, you could find as standard wallpapers in Operative Systems such as Windows XP or MacOs Panther.
Other subjects include Computer Viruses, Trojan Horses, IP Addresses and other forms of floating data that even if invisible, surround our daily life and that I want to visualize and store on canvas like in a database.
At a quick glance, my paintings could seem a simple copy -in a bigger scale- of those icons you can find on your desktop. In truth they are painted as our eyes see them on the screen, and not as they are. I paint them with shades appearing due to the distance from which we look at them instead of copying them as they are programmed, that is in squares, pixel by pixel. I have inverted the process used by Pointillism and Divisionism during 19th-20th centuries. It is an aesthetic choice that hides a precise concept and aim: all my paintings are related to the subject of perception. The perception of the world filtered and mirrored by our desktop experience.
Following this argument, I see them as intimate paintings, which can evoke personal emotions and private memories in people’s minds.
Landscape/Dtp Bliss, 2003. oil on linen. 15.7″x11.8″ (30×40 cm)
Landscape, Untitled dtp, 2001 acrylic and oil on linen.
55″x75″ (140×190 cm.)
Waiting for Spring Cleaning 2001, oil
on linen. 55″x75″(140×190 cm)
Hierarchic desktop, 2001 oil on
linen.55″x75″(140×190 cm)
fashion week eve- 2003, oil on linen55″x75″(140×190 cm)
Landscape/Dtp yellow flower, 2003. oil on linen. 15.7″x11.8″(30×40 cm)
Landscape/Dtp ladybug, 2004 oil on linen. 15.7″x11.8″(30×40 cm)
Landscape/Dtp wind, 2004 oil on linen. 15.7″x11.8″(30×40 cm)
Landscape/Dtp snow, 2004 oil on linen. 15.7″x11.8″(30×40 cm))
Landscape, Untitled dtp
two folders, 2000. acrylic and oil on linen. 55x75inch (140×190 cm.)
Landscape, Untitled dtp bubbles, 2000, oil on linen.
55x75inch (140×190 cm.)
Landscape, Untitled_Adobe, 2001 oil on linen.
50″ x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
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Landscape, Untitled JavaCafé, 2000. oil_on_linen.
75x55inch (190 x 140 cm.)
Landscape, Untitled redhat linux, 2000 oil on linen.
50″ x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, Untitled ShockWave, 2000 oil on linen. 50″
x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, Untitled DreamWeaver UltraDev, 2001 oil on
linen. 50″ x 55″ (128 x 140 cm)
I remember the days
Landscape, Napster Logo, 2002 oil on linen. 50″
x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Office:mac/Excel
Office:mac/Entourage X
Office:mac/Powerpoint
Office:mac/Word
Landscape, Untitled 2 folders, 2001. oil on linen. 50″
x 55″each (128 x 140 cm.)
Landscape, Untitled Bmp, 2000. oil on linen. 50″
x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, Untitled folder, 2001. oil on linen. 50″
x 55″(128 x 140 cm.)
Landscape, Untitled Html, 2001. oil on linen. 50″
x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, Self Portrait.PHOTO, 2001. oil on linen.
50″ x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, Self_Portrait.PICT, 2001. oil on linen. 50″
x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, Self_Portrait.PNG, 2001. oil on linen. 50″
x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, Self Portrait.TIFF, 2001. oil on linen.
50″ x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, Untitled Real, 2001. oil on linen. 50″
x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, Self_Portrait.TIFF, 2001. oil on linen. 50″
x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, 5 July in Silicon Valley, 2002. oil on linen.
50″ x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Camouflage folder, 200415.7″x11.8″(30×40 cm)
Landscape, CYMK FreeHand Plugin, 2002. oil on linen.
50″ x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, 2 untitled mac docs, 2002. oil on linen.
50″ x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, Roby Baggio kicks the ball, 2002. oil on
linen. 50″ x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, Untitled napster, 2000. oil on linen. 50″
x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, bear share (alias), 2002 oil on linen. 50″
x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, illustrator (alias), 2002 oil on linen. 50″
x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, Untitled JPEG, 2000. oil
on linen. 50″ x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, Napster (alias), 2001. oil on linen. 50″
x 55″ (128 x 140 cm)
Landscape, Crazy Asian Babes thumbnail, 2001. oil on
linen. 75 x 55 inch (190 x 140 cm.)
Landscape, 9 thumbnails, 2000. oil on linen. 27x35inch
each(90 x 70 cm. cad.)
Chronicles / trojan nazi attack,
alkyds on acrylic chalk. 2003 11.8″x15.7″ (30×40 cm)
Landscape, Chronicles / spam attack
alkyds on acrylic chalk. 2003 11.8″x15.7″ (30×40 cm)
Chronicles / cult of the dead cow,
2003 alkyds on acrylic chalk. 2003 11.8″x15.7″ (30×40 cm)
Landscape, Chronicles / file sharing,
2003 alkyds on acrylic chalk. 2003 11.8″x15.7″ (30×40 cm)
Chronicles / whack a mole, 2003
alkyds on acrylic chalk. 2003 11.8″x15.7″ (30×40 cm)
Chronicles / Donald dick, 2003 alkyds
on acrylic chalk. 2003 11.8″x15.7″ (30×40 cm)
Chronicles / spam attack, 2003.
alkyds on acrylic chalk. 2003 11.8″x15.7″ (30×40 cm)
TQ – Where is the safest place to sit on an airplane?
(touchit_01) 2002 oil alkyds on linen 15.7″x11.8″
– 40×30 cm
TQ – How do I delete my account? (touchit_02)2002 oil & alkyds on linen 15.7″x11.8″
-40×30 cm
TQ -Does al-Qaeda have cyberterrorist capabilities?
(touchit_03) 2002 oil & alkyds on linen 15.7″x11.8″
(40×30 cm)
TQ -Does mustard gas have anything to do with mustard?
(touchit_04) 2002 oil alkyds on linen 15.7″x11.8″
– 40×30 cm
TQ – What should I do if I receive a suspicious letter?
(touchit_05) 2002 oil alkyds on linen 15.7″x11.8″
– 40×30 cm
TQ – Is the oil a key issue? (touchit_06) 2002 oil &
alkyds on linen 15.7″x11.8″(40×30 cm)
TQ – Do you want a copy of this song?(touchit_07) 2002 oil & alkyds on linen 15.7″x11.8″
(40×30 cm)
TQ – So what’s wrong with Europe? (touchit_08) 2002
oil & alkyds on linen 15.7″x11.8″ (40×30 cm)
TQ – cdjdf Do You Know The Impact of Post War on Global
Financial Markets ? (t_09) 2002 15.7″x11.8″
Landscape, Skype (alias), 2005 oil on linen. 50″
x 55″(128 x 140 cm)
Why are online personals so hot? (mac thumb)2002 oil on linen. 50″ x 55″ (128 x 140 cm.)
Horizon (cursors)
Cantami o Diva del Pelide Achille l’ira funesta 1234567890,
2002
Adobe Photoshop 7 Crack Code, 2002
Emoticons, Bozo the Clown – 2000, Interference Acrylic on silk, cm. 40 x 50
Emoticons, Bob hope – 2000, Interference Acrylic on silk, cm. 40 x 50