Davide Maria Coltro is opening his first solo exhibition at Studio la Città on Saturday, June 15th.
His project invites the public to explore new painting dimensions by offering an experience that goes beyond the rigid categories of static work or video art. Coltro’s work is a meditation about the essence and boundaries of painting itself. Looking at his work one enters a peculiar and disorienting dimension by dealing with a work that is never the same that induces contemplation and that the artist calls Medial Painting. A distinctive feature of the work is that it can be accessed remotely, embodying the concept of the “open work” theorised by Umberto Eco. The electronic canvas becomes a territory of relationship immersed in the becoming, allowing for different levels of interaction between the public and the artist himself, who operates beyond the confines of his Atelier, potentially in any place where a Quadro Mediale is connected to him.
This concept is the result of a long research and experimentation that Davide Maria Coltro had already started in the late 1990s and is therefore deeply rooted in his experience. In Medial Painting, the artist treats digital media and technology in the same way as canvas and paintbrushes, and points out:
I combine the principles of traditional painting with digital media, creating works that can be continuously updated and changed. I use digital screens as living canvases where electronic painting, composed of bits and pixels is formed, transformed and lives in constant evolution. This technique provides a dynamism that challenges the boundaries of traditional art by expanding the lexicon of painting and transforming the way artists conceive and realise their works.
