Exhibitions, Italy, Salerno, 19 February 2022
SANDRO BONGIANI VRSPACE
Anthological Exhibition by RCBz
"art between irony, satire and imagination"
curated by Sandro Bongiani
From February 19, 2022 to April 16, 2022
Saturday 19 February 2022 at 6.30 pm the SANDRO BONGIANI VR SPACE gallery is pleased to inaugurate the RCBz Anthological Exhibition, art between irony, satire and imagination.
https://www.sandrobongianivrspace.it/
After decades of artistic research in digital art and art theory, in the era of the NFT phenomenon we still underestimate the role played by artists who from the 70s onwards, as in the case of RCBz, who, out of a desire for autonomy, have carried out research and alternative proposals using technology and computers that were very inconsistent with respect to the hypotheses proposed by the official art system. The American artist RCBz has always lived in anonymity despite being considered one of the best digital collage creators around in the world. For several decades, RCBz has been using images and digital printing to create work using a sort of heterotopia that passes between real space and mental space, between synthesis and poetic essence. 72 works on display encompass much of his work, from the collages of the 70s to the poetic works of 2021 with a vision that is always aimed at representing reality between irony, satire and art history.
An original investigation born in the 70s in the form of collage, subsequently evolved with the digital between materiality and immateriality. Interested in surrealism, from 2007 onwards he formulated his own personal weltanschauung full of unusual relationships and combinations. Precisely in these years, works of great beauty and charm were born such as "Count and Mrs Trampolini Stage a Masque", of 2008, "Anita Berber of 2011, or the series of works "Tictac Fin "of 2014. Work which ironizes American politicians and especially Trumph is presented in many works from 2017 to today. In this anthology for the first time in Italy, there are 13 unpublished works from 2021 created specifically in homage to the great American artist Ray Johnson.
RCBz's “super-realist” art deals with reality by fragmenting it and recomposing it in a highly visionary way. A completely original representation of reality, with an extraordinary visionary charge of things told in a poetic way between fantasy, irony and imagination. It is not simply a matter of pure and simple transfer of digital images because it does not represent the simplistic skin of the external world, objects, things, but the unseen, veiled fragments of images deliberately recovered and interpreted by means of combinatorial digital processing. The result is to have produced, over the course of several years of work, new situations of an imaginative type that has been deconstructed and at the same time recomposed completely new. In the end, it is up to the viewer to decipher and decrypt the images produced by the artist. A clear and decidedly visionary attitude of reality in a mixture of elements that actually alter the normal relationship of things, transforming them into something which never existed but nevertheless is much more concrete. These mental reflections are born and live in this anesthetized socio-historical context full of great uncertainty and inhumanity in which misunderstandings, injustices and repeated social conditioning are packaged.
Thanks to the RCBz Archive of Minnesota, and the Bongiani Art Museum Collection of Salerno for allowing the creation of this important anthological exhibition.
SANDRO BONGIANI VRSPACE
Anthological Exhibition by RCBz
Art between irony, satire and imagination
Opera 1970 - 2021
Vernissage 19 February 2022 at 18:30
Via S. Calenda, 105 / D - Salerno (Italy), Tel / Fax 089 56 48 159
e-mail: bongianimuseum@gmail.com
Web Gallery: https://www.sandrobongianivrspace.it/
Open all day every day from 00.00 to 24.00
Anthological Exhibition by RCBz
"art between irony, satire and imagination"
curated by Sandro Bongiani
From February 19, 2022 to April 16, 2022
Saturday 19 February 2022 at 6.30 pm the SANDRO BONGIANI VR SPACE gallery is pleased to inaugurate the RCBz Anthological Exhibition, art between irony, satire and imagination.
https://www.sandrobongianivrspace.it/
After decades of artistic research in digital art and art theory, in the era of the NFT phenomenon we still underestimate the role played by artists who from the 70s onwards, as in the case of RCBz, who, out of a desire for autonomy, have carried out research and alternative proposals using technology and computers that were very inconsistent with respect to the hypotheses proposed by the official art system. The American artist RCBz has always lived in anonymity despite being considered one of the best digital collage creators around in the world. For several decades, RCBz has been using images and digital printing to create work using a sort of heterotopia that passes between real space and mental space, between synthesis and poetic essence. 72 works on display encompass much of his work, from the collages of the 70s to the poetic works of 2021 with a vision that is always aimed at representing reality between irony, satire and art history.
An original investigation born in the 70s in the form of collage, subsequently evolved with the digital between materiality and immateriality. Interested in surrealism, from 2007 onwards he formulated his own personal weltanschauung full of unusual relationships and combinations. Precisely in these years, works of great beauty and charm were born such as "Count and Mrs Trampolini Stage a Masque", of 2008, "Anita Berber of 2011, or the series of works "Tictac Fin "of 2014. Work which ironizes American politicians and especially Trumph is presented in many works from 2017 to today. In this anthology for the first time in Italy, there are 13 unpublished works from 2021 created specifically in homage to the great American artist Ray Johnson.
RCBz's “super-realist” art deals with reality by fragmenting it and recomposing it in a highly visionary way. A completely original representation of reality, with an extraordinary visionary charge of things told in a poetic way between fantasy, irony and imagination. It is not simply a matter of pure and simple transfer of digital images because it does not represent the simplistic skin of the external world, objects, things, but the unseen, veiled fragments of images deliberately recovered and interpreted by means of combinatorial digital processing. The result is to have produced, over the course of several years of work, new situations of an imaginative type that has been deconstructed and at the same time recomposed completely new. In the end, it is up to the viewer to decipher and decrypt the images produced by the artist. A clear and decidedly visionary attitude of reality in a mixture of elements that actually alter the normal relationship of things, transforming them into something which never existed but nevertheless is much more concrete. These mental reflections are born and live in this anesthetized socio-historical context full of great uncertainty and inhumanity in which misunderstandings, injustices and repeated social conditioning are packaged.
Thanks to the RCBz Archive of Minnesota, and the Bongiani Art Museum Collection of Salerno for allowing the creation of this important anthological exhibition.
SANDRO BONGIANI VRSPACE
Anthological Exhibition by RCBz
Art between irony, satire and imagination
Opera 1970 - 2021
Vernissage 19 February 2022 at 18:30
Via S. Calenda, 105 / D - Salerno (Italy), Tel / Fax 089 56 48 159
e-mail: bongianimuseum@gmail.com
Web Gallery: https://www.sandrobongianivrspace.it/
Open all day every day from 00.00 to 24.00
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