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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