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BIG BANG, UTOPIA SERIES, 2022 DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY COMPUTATIONAL ART 4000X2664 PIXELS
REORGANIZATION, UTOPIA SERIES, 2022 DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY COMPUTATIONAL ART 4000X2664 PIXELS
ART AND ARTISTS PRIMORDIAL SOUP, UTOPIA SERIES, 2022 DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY COMPUTATIONAL ART 4000X2664 PIXELS
UNDERWAY, UTOPIA SERIES, 2022 DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY COMPUTATIONAL ART 4000X2664 PIXELS
STATE OF THE WORLD, 2022 DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY COMPUTATIONAL ART 4000X2664 PIXELS.
PAUL DELPANI
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria
https://www.paul-delpani.com | instagram.com/paul_delpani/
Utopia series: This is exactly how astrophysics defines it in its theses - from
Corona, exclusion, conflict, war, hunger, climate crisis, and the big bang to the expansion, the contraction, the implosion
profit instead of sustainability - the point of NO RETURN has and the new start from the singularity with a new big bang.
almost been reached. Distopia instead of utopia. Topics that Before the new order - the realization of utopia - there is thus
occupy us and demand to be addressed and answered. Art can destruction; space must be made for the new, for the possibility
be a mediator here. According to Joseph Schumpeter, every of new thinking, of recombination, of implementation.
development is based on the process of creative destruction, The works submitted reflect a part of this process in the artistic
the recombination of factors; old structures are displaced and debate. They are based on fantastic images of microscope
finally destroyed. Destruction is therefore necessary so that photography - an image of the microcosm; digitally traced,
new order can take place; in the Hindu sense of the cycle of coloured and superimposed, similar to the primordial soup from
creation and destruction, for which the god Shiva stands. which all life arose. (Ed 5 + AP)
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