Art and technology
The relationship between art and technology has always influenced society. In particular, a significant change in man’s approach to technology can be noted in the 1960s, which led to new forms of communication and social habits.
A change in the quality of life and well-being, which from those years saw man approach technological systems that were innovative for the time, such as television, radio, cinema, photography and the telephone, which provided society with new communication systems and new habits dictated by a new social well-being spread by the capitalist-technological system.
However, there is also an entropy in art and society in general, caused by the law of physics that everything eventually deteriorates and dies, including planets, stars, and the entire universe. We have reached a point of no return.
Contemporary artists react to this situation by creating works that reflect contemporary society, often using a paradoxically ironic attitude. Furthermore, social media plays an important role in art and the entropic process of art and society in general. And it is certainly a path of no return, I hope that human conscience can arrive at a change, then and only then will there be a new dawn. On the other hand, the tendency towards order could occur in an open system, to receive new energy from outside.
Entropy
This painting, titled Entropy, depicts an abstract human face undergoing an exotropic disintegration of being, as if slowly dissolving before one’s eyes.
Made with gesso and acrylic on wood, the painting has depth and texture. While scratches and shades of gray and blue give the painting a sense of movement, as if the face were floating in space.
The face itself has no precise contours or defined lines. Instead, it appears to be made of thin layers that overlap each other, creating a blurry effect. It is not possible to say whether it is a male or female face, young or old. It’s as if it were an entity that is losing its human form.
But it is not only the shape of the face that seems to dissolve, but also its being. The exotropic disintegration of being that is taking place indicates that the face is losing its identity and its very existence. It is a process of decomposition, in which life is slowly dissolved and disintegrated.
Ultimately, in this painting the form and its existence are in transition, while the human face and its identity are in the process of dissolution, a complex and subtle process of change.
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