From photography to magic
For the last 20 years, I have been running a club (mentioned in a couple of books). It’s in a basement, with yellow bricks, in a palace built in 1893. Secession-style, surrounded by a large park, the Modern Gallery, the railway station, and hundred-year-old plane trees… Inspiring!
Concerts, exhibitions, literary evenings, DJ performances, Roma Festival, Gyass music, and more music! Guests, projects, moments… Music album production, travels, festivals, cities…
The club has often undergone basic, aesthetic, and functional changes, in which I participate both constructively and physically. In the search for an optimal aesthetic, sound, and functional space, my aesthetic, musical, and cultural criteria have evolved. It is necessary to reflect on aesthetics, music, images, interior design, the functionality of space, and their interactions.
In the meantime, I frantically download music and pictures.
Cycle I
My Android phone offers me the possibility to take photos and, therefore, create my own works.
I photograph boards, bricks, trees, walls… without a specific goal. A huge amount of material has accumulated, and I stop taking photos. I edit the material. The story begins!
The experience of turning (almost any section of an image!) into symmetry is one of surprise. One is fascinated by the inherent lawfulness in the creation of humanoid and natural forms.
I combine different photos or already-made compositions, using transparency. Unconsciously, conditioned by my limited knowledge, I have developed a technique of image processing with infinite possibilities for creating forms and colours.
And so it has been for years.
Cycle II
Creative and administrative phases alternate: view, sort, delete…
Revisions lead to new combinations and many new compositions. Many of them are series of two motifs moving toward each other, representing the search for the “perfect” version of the overlap.
On the Internet, despite my intensive search, I can’t find anything similar, which gives me the illusion of originality
Cycle III
Editing and selection! Many years.
I name some compositions; others have been named by others, while the rest are waiting for a name.
Cycle IV
It follows, but now it’s the music’s turn.