Protoquadro is a painting technique conceived to use digital supports to produce objects that will stand into a space as paintings used to be.
These objects have some characters of a painting and some of a totally new class of objects, therefore the name, formed by the greek term "protos" (first) and the italian "quadro" (painting).
Concetto Formale
"We synthesize all instants (of time, place, form, color-tone) and we build the painting upon them. And this painting, as an independent organism, has its own law, and the elements that made it obey to this law, creating as such, the similarity of the painting with itself"
(Umberto Boccioni, 1914)
IFA in Berlin Messe claims to be the biggest fair type event for Consumer Electronics and Home Appliances in the world.
And in this occasion the ICE series Triptych called “B” will be shown in the premises, introduced by a first outing on www.philips.com web site. In the site you can also d/l an interview with Federico Bonelli.
Still available a nice introduction to Protoquadro project as published on Password Magazine n.33 .PDF.
Is for us a nice thing moreover because we expect more people to be able to see our work and enjoy it.
Is the occasion to thanks all minds and harts behind the project “protoquadro”, in particular Amy Jackson, the brilliant artist that inspired with her gorgeous pictures the first protoquadro “Unlikely Canvases” in 2003.
A generative object, conceived to be hang on a wall and stand as a painting will and changing slowly in unpredictable ways.
B is composed using a selection pictures from ice formations on water, frost, crystals and snow and a set of images of a naked female body covered with clay, taken by the author.
ICE-B is a futurist painting about the search for an archetype.
more info: www.protoquadro.net
by: Federico Bonelli
software by: Robert Fischer model for B: Benedetta Mazzotti
EPQ B as set up in the Loophole Gallery Friday -photo R.F.
Transmediale is on this week in Berlin and we have two pieces to be seen in town.
The first one is at Transmediale main exhibition, is a triptych made on 3 screens, and illustrates a norwegian folk story with ever-changing chill.
The second piece will hand from this afternoon in the space OFF-Transmediale at the gallery the “Loophole” thanks to the initiative of our friends there in Berlin. In this way you can admire our new work that had found no place in the main Exhibition. Let us know what you think…
