HAVING A VISIBILITY PROBLEM? YOU HAVE
TO THINK BIG!!! NOW AUDIENCE IS WORLDWIDE!!!!!
Great tension between the Vatican and the Italian
scientific community: the Pope was invited to hold a Lectio Magistralis
during the opening ceremony of the academic year at the University of Rome,
La Sapienza. Professors insurged declaring unfit the presence of the Pope,
while radical leftist students have staged a sit-in. Read the
letter of professor M. Cini which firmly explains scientists' point of
view (in Italian). In short it is argued that the Church is trying to
split the front of the scientific community relying on moral issues and
bringing forward the thesis of
Intelligent Design versus Darwinism. The Pope chose to withdrawal.
Still burning the ashes of Giordano Bruno, still burning the humiliation
of Galileo!
I've
been twice in the country of Pablo Neruda, fishing and riding along the Ruta
Cinco. Apart from the spectacular environment (desert and ice, ocean and
Cordillera), apart from the historical events and the cultural blendings, I'm in
love with the particular mood of Chileans, always balanced between the shame and
pride of being southamericans. I drew these sketches in
Rio Puelo, others will follow (see also First Five Years)
PREGNANT KILLER -If I ever had a punk rock band... here's the logo (image,
16KB). By the way, Andrew Bianchi, a punk teenager from Rhode Island, shares my
same nickname. Meet him at
http://www.myspace.com/20563077. He's a great fan of
Hibakusha from
Providence, a band that deserves attention starting from it's
name.
WORLD WAR III
-In this section I
collected all the images concerning 9-11 and related conflicts (images,
total 1.2MB).
customIKEAtion
-"...as soon as you buy
IKEA, you start
working for IKEA..." that's what a friend of mine
complained about the swedish furniture retailer. I've worked hard for IKEA
in these years,
customizing the basic items to fit my personal needs. Here's a gallery of
examples (images,
total 400KB)
MONA PIXA'S SMILE
-If Leonardo Da Vinci were to
be alive in our days, he would have painted his
masterpiece pixelating it.
Ok, you lose all the details, but squeezing your eyes you will still be able to
see Mona Pixa's Smile (image,
24KB).I managed to index the color palette, allowing diffusion so to match original colors. The result is a new pattern that adds to the original checkers (GIF, 66KB). You can download a hi-res version, to be printed at the original size of the painting (GIF, 1.8MB). As you can see in this enlargement of the smile (GIF, 41KB) details are back! By the way, I'm not the first to discretize Mona Lisa.
NO RIGHTS
RESERVED -(jpeg, 108KB) In 2006 the Crack! comic
convention (see next item) released the catalog of the previous edition. Artists
were asked to produce new material signing a
creative commons license. I didn't sign
anything, that's what my drawing was about. File is conceived for high quality
printing (1.8MB).
VINAVYL
-In 2006 the
Crack! comic
convention was dedicated to italian artist
Stefano Tamburini, father of
Ranxerox.
I was invited to make my contribution, delivering this vectorial drawing
inspired to Tamburini's
xerox manipulations. You
can download the AutoCAD code (127KB, plot any size, see
other items for further
information), a GIF
file (print A4 size,
508KB) and a JPG version (view on
screen, 105KB).
LETTERS IN LOVE
-Here's an idea for an art
show. Giant letters in different fonts are coupled on the wall. Visitors are
invited to recognize themselves in the display. An effort of symbolization (image, 60KB).
THREE KEYS
-My elder brother married at
last, so I prepared three vectorial panels to fill the white walls of his new
home. I wanted a subject that expressed the material basis of our whole
existence, and the wonder and joy related to this condition. So I drew three
keys out of three materials, Steel, Plastic and Wood. You
can download the AutoCAD codes (248,
209, 264KB, plot any size, see
below for further
information), three GIF versions (print A4 size,
1131KB,
1414KB and
1291KB) or a JPG key array (view
on screen, 370KB).
THE PITCHER is a classic still
life subject, attempted by legions of artists. Here is my vectorial version. You
can download the AutoCAD code (236KB, plot any size, see next items for further
information), a GIF
file (print A4 size, 680KB) and a JPG version (view on
screen, 105KB).
FORTYTWO BADGES
-The
CRACK! 2006 staff asked me to
draw badges for merchandising purposes. They told me the size and said I could
put 40 on a single A4 sheet. At the end I fitted 42 variations of a single
subject in the assigned space. You can download the AutoCAD code (207KB, plot any size,
see next item for further information), a GIF version (print
A4 size, actual badge size,
1MB) and a JPG version (view on
screen, 107KB).
ART-O-CAD
-Computer Aided Design
is my everyday routine. I fight with polylines, attributes and fills that won't
fill. Still I love these programs and I find their clumsyness an artistic defy.
THE DEEPEST MOUNTAIN is my first essay. You can download the AutoCAD code (180KB, plot any size), a GIF
version (print A4 size,
973KB) and a JPG version (view
on screen, 178KB).
STAPLE GUN COMICS
-I'm back to where I started:
comics! Download the zip file, print the three images on scrap paper, follow the
easy folding procedure, staple and... be my publisher! First issue is MORGANA,
as always a story of Love & Death (images,
597KB).
LITTLE BAG, death of a superhero (jpeg, 54k).
SEA-RUST-BLOOD
-Between the Sea and the Rust stands the Blood (jpeg, 87k, original pic
by C. Perilli).
PEEKING TONGUE
-Anna drawing with tongue peeking from lips (jpeg, 93k).
DOWNGRADE
-Upgrade your computer, downgrade your life (jpeg, 22k).
HOMONYMIA (jpeg,
62k), same name, different person.
The WHALE (jpeg, 57k)
DOUBLE XX
-That's what makes her so special (jpeg, 50k)
BRAIN RESEARCH
-If you didn't see me fooling around for the past two years, this is the
jail they dropped me in and lost the key (2x jpeg, Draco 37k & Brainresearch03,
95k)
You don't need X-RAYS to see through walls (jpeg, 57k, original pic by
C. Perilli)
BAD KID. (jpeg, 46k)
MAT-[X], my former
workstation. Five years and I haven't changed my CRT yet. (jpeg, 49k)
RUNNING BABY, be synthetic, don't be phonetic. (jpeg, 40k)
KILLER KLOWN. (jpeg, 30k)
TOYS. (jpeg, 39k)
POLAROID.
(jpeg, 54k)
BRAIN RESEARCH. (41k)
MORBID PACKAGING dedicated to all the friends who left us, even the nonsmokers.
(jpeg, 48k)
BLOOD SUCKING
ALIEN from Outer Space. (jpeg, 20k)
See also Bomber-Z.
LITTLE KITTENS
-Dated
1990, a true, sad story. Tightly bonded are childhood flashbacks, Andrea
Pazienza's comics and the theme of in sleep drifting. Drawn in the same
weeks of "The Plant", witnesses
my efforts for a personal style (images,
total 906KB).
ANTHRAX. Mass destruction made
easy (images,
total 260KB).
BRAIN RESEARCH, stunning example of preconceptualism. (jpeg, 45k)
VERTICAL INFANTRY
-Dated
1983, this comic depicts classical sci-fi theme of Eternal War. In this
case it is also an Useless War (images,
total 970KB).
RED LIGHT, photo by Severine Queyras, drawing by Guido Gentile. (jpeg, 57k)
FAST DRAWINGS dated 1990. Previous George, previous war. (images, 6x17k)
B-synth01, BE SYNTHETIC, don't be pathetic. (jpeg, 45k) B-synth02, be synthetic, don't be peripathetic. (jpeg, 43k)
LEPANTO,
a subway station. (jpeg, 70k)
ORIGINAL COPY, life as pretended by tape manufacturers. (jpeg, 52k)
SUN & DEAD, image based on the "slide cutting" technique. (jpeg, 25k) Sun and Dead, detail. (jpeg, 63k)
DECLINING SUN, the land of. (gif, 3k)
SMALL STEPS, are you sure they were extinct? (jpeg, 93k) Small steps, bug/sand/stick/shadow/shells. (jpeg, 76k)
ANDY WARNS You, what to do in Murcia when you're drunk. (jpeg, 36k)
ELECTRIC
BLUE, pic by Unknown German Artist. (jpeg, 60k) SMILING
HOUSE, by Known German Artist (David Krippendorff).
(jpeg, 93k) MILK CARTON, pic by Unknown German Artist. (jpeg, 59k)
DigKom, personal ASCII LOGO. (gif, 6k)
ARTATTACK, this is how little
Anna calls the fence-like shape next to Big
Nose and Madam. (jpeg, 24k)
"LITTLE GIRL", an interesting dream. (jpeg, 47k)
Antonio Tagliarini performs and produces "FREEZY", "Preserve. Freeze. Move
in the future. Object is still. Void. Full light. Exposed. White color."
(jpeg, 29k)
OMICRON, logo for a forthcoming serie. (jpeg, 17k)
MECHANICS vs.
ELECTRONICS, starring Misolete. Mixed media. (jpeg, 45k)
NAZIFEMINISM, the ultimate political movement. I'm still working on it's
philosophical basis, but logo is ready for marketing. (jpeg, 22k)
THE FUTURE of Entertainement, finally a meaningful image! (19k)
LETTERS FROM THE
HIBERNATION -This section
is dedicated to some of my juvenile "analogic" works (most of them unfinished).
A dark atmosphere prevails (we are just in the middle of the eighties),
war is omnipresent, along with rigid weather, solitude and hibernation.
That's what I call Zeitgeist! (images,
total 603KB)
RHYTHMIC GIRL. A small pencil drawing scanned and transformed. (jpeg, 38k), SWIMMING GIRL. A small pencil drawing scanned and transformed. (jpeg, 41k)
Rejected gloomy LOGO for the first version of digitalkOmiX (Oct 1999).
(jpeg, 12K)
Rejected project named CRASH left me some images. This is one of those.
(jpeg, 36K)
ETNA
-Just a snapshot from my summer vacations. Here you can see recent lava
flow from volcano Etna, Sicily, that knocked down a telepheric pole. Smoke
is just vapour after a hard rain.(jpeg, 27K)
METAL PIECES
-In 1997 Architects Pimpini, Roccatelli & Valenti where appointed to design
Piazza Piaggio in the roman outskirts. They asked me to develop the structures
of three metallic kiosks underneath a sun shade. Finally the piazza has
been completed, and its worth a visit. I used program
SAP90
to calculate the structures. (images, total 187KB)
KALENDARS
-Scanned
images from the past millennium (originally produced
Jan 2000). Featuring
the Mutant-Machines-Monsters (1991),
Wrench
Precision Toolbodies (1992) and Engines (1993) calendars. Special
thanx to Miki B who holds the original drawings. (images, total 1.5MB)
MOUSETRAP
-In
1995 I was in team with N.Cazzato, F.Delfini & G.Gentile. That year
we won a design competition concerning an exposition facility. The result
was this metal grid block protecting a nucleus of translucent plastic.
The pavillon was built by Delfini Group and raised at Bologna during the
SAIE kermesse. (images, total 297KB)A movie of the construction, shot and edited by M.T.Laudando, L.Tovoli, S.Pierini & A.Trapani, also exists. I'll try to show an excerp of it some day in the future.
RENDERZ
-Essays
of virtual reality (originally produced Oct 1999).
All
models were rendered with LightWave 5.6. The WaterShade section features
shaded Autocad 12 models (1997).
Now
also the Detail section, witnessing
my research on realism in rendering. Special thanx to Gimmo & Dct.
Faustus. (images, total 987KB)
ENTRE la MUERTE y
la VIDA -And
how rapidly was I introduced to the mysteries of life and death. (originally produced
Jan 2000, images, total 351KB)
(R)AGE OF THE
MACHINE -World
seen through the eyes of a machine.
"We'd
better teach our Machines good manners before they overrun us". (originally produced Oct
1999, images, total 628KB)
STILL HOME
-An HTML multi-choice visit to an enigmatic
house (originally produced Oct 1999, images, total 565KB)