Deep pixel
Adrien Di Fazio brings to life sculptures on walls integrating scientific principles to create an immersive visual game
Adrien Di Fazio’s work presents itself as a wall sculpture that transcends its physical form to metamorphose into a captivating visual game.
The Deep Pixel explores both perspective and perception, placing the observer’s gaze at the center of the artwork. As one approaches, the artwork metamorphoses: the 3D effect is revealed, allowing the distinction of each individual piece that composes the sculpture. Stepping back, the artwork metamorphoses once again, presenting itself as a unified pattern to our eyes.
Perception evolves as one plays with shadows, light, distance, and viewing angles, integral elements that take part into the works. Every gaze upon these works reveals a new facet, unveiling them from a different angle.
The artist seeks to reduce the features of a character or object, stimulating intellect to grasp its form. He focuses on the visual game created by the perspectives of his sculptures, guided by maths and physics’ principles that determine their depth, harmony, and sturdiness.
The Deep Pixel Art is a contemporary and Pop Art reinterpretation of both Pointillist and Impressionist movements. Much like Pointillism, the Deep Pixel perceives reality through successive details and composes patterns using meticulously arranged dots. Similarly to Impressionism, the Deep Pixel Art captures scenes by emphasizing the viewer’s perception, relying on their keen eye to merge the elements into a coherent whole.
Golden mushroom
“When sculptures evolve like human skin exposed to the sun. Evolving sculptures adapt to their environment and transform under the influence of UV light“
The concept of evolving sculptures represents another interpretation of the Artist’s pursuit of metamorphosis of the artworks. In appearance, these sculptures assume simple forms, yet they are, in fact, crafted according to specific physical and mathematical principles and conceal a visual interplay that unfolds through shifts of colors. The artist aims to extract and utilize this visual interplay to enrich the aesthetic experience of their creations.
The concept of the “Golden Mushroom” merges science with an object directly inspired by Adrien Di Fazio’s childhood in the 1990s.
Studying Archimedes’ work on cones and spheres, the Artist chose to reinterpret and combine them to form a natural object: the Mushroom. Using this as a research foundation, Adrien Di Fazio aimed to create a sculpture that respected the Golden Ratio, a symbol of beauty renowned for its perfect proportions. The “Golden Mushroom” was born.
By merging mathematics, physics, chemistry, the “Golden Mushroom” provides a unique visual and conceptual experience. The purity of forms, perfect embodiment of proportions, and the physical complexity of cones and ellipses seamlessly blend into the purest form represented by that of a mushroom.
The visual play characteristic of the artist’s works comes to life this time through a chemical process. Like a chameleon adapting to its surroundings, the sculpture metamorphoses through its dynamic palette, seamlessly blending into its new environment, much like the changing hues of sunlight on one’s skin.
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