Two
issues have developed into our society's highlights and an important
part of the fashionable industry. The first one is the digital
cell-phone as a picture taking camera with the ability of allowing
its users to take selfies that are then posted in Social Media pages
to be seen through the same cell-phone or another, as well as in a
personal computer. The second issue is branding. It will refer to the
clothing of the posers, and even to the brand of their car. In
addition to brands such as Chanel, Vuitton, Nike, Ferrari or
Lamborghini, just to name a few, today distinguished just by a simple
logo or pattern that entitles the bearer to feel a somewhat
superiority, there is now the digital practice of working with
symbols to reduce wording and sentences. This has created the fashion
of communicating by using "emojis" or "emoticons"
that have shortened our language to like or unlike, smiles, tears or
hearts, just to express with one only image what we feel or think on
almost anything happening in our lives. This can be at the same time
a positive or negative phenomena according to the point of view from
which we judge it. Certainly, it is making to communicate universal
for anybody, no matter where they are or what language they speak,
going beyond location and the nature of the event portrayed.
However,
according to artist Chris Delias: "3D printing is
revolutionizing the way we design and build things. Several Social
Media concepts have tried to digitalize our daily lives and the
relationships between humans, all they do is make our lives more
public and predictable. But: Social Media is just the symptom! The
root cause of this sickness is superficiality. The result is what I
call 'Anti-Real-Relationship' demonstrated in the artificial
connections and relationships on various social media. For me it is
terrible to see how real friends, real relations and feelings become
less important and more voyeuristic. Of course, these social media
have revolutionized the way we communicate and made it easier to stay
connected regardless of where we are at any given moment. Everything
that makes our lives easier and faster has a chance to be successful,
but it leaves a gap between the digital and the real. My art intends
to close this gap... My art should depict emotions, humans, faces in
a way that you can't find in our digitalized society. For me the
spotlight is on the beauty of humanity, it's my first priority -
emotions caused by love, music, harmony... But, not only the sunny
side of the world will be represented in my art - people don't just
love one another - they hate and fight - they lose, feel intense
pain, experience crushing war and destruction, all of which are part
of human interaction... My work should not show the reality 1:1 - the
colors, proportions and poses I use are reflective of my emotions and
feelings during the painting process. It is an interactive process
between my soul, the model or person and the canvas - an interactive
realism. My art is a projection of the reality to my soul."
Mariavelia Savino is the Curator of the exhibition.
For
more information, contact:
Tata
Fernandez, Executive Director
Mariavelia
Savino, Chief Curator
Contemporary
Art Projects USA
786-262-5886
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