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"Shadows of the World"
I was born in Naples, Italy. My formal education was in languages and literature; I hold a PhD in Comparative Literature and teach Rhetoric at Pisa University, Italy; I frequently travel to foreign institutions as a visiting professor.
As an artist I am entirely self-taught. I started
photographing and making collages and montages at a very young age and read every book about technique I could lay my hands on (I still do). As soon as digital graphics came around, I realized that the computer would allow me to do everything I had always dreamed about.
The learning curve has been slow, but it's definitely been worth it. |
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The most straightforward way for me to categorize my artwork is according to the techniques used.
"Natural abstractions" is "almost-straight" photography; the computer is used only as a retouching tool, much as a traditional darkroom would be, but not for compositing images.
"Imaginary gardens" is mainly montage: real objects put next to one another, then photographed and retouched digitally.
The work in "Variable dimensions", on the other hand, is entirely digital work process: it starts with 3D objects and / or wih my own slides, which are scanned and later composited into a montage
using masks, layers and various opacity levels and blend modes. |
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