Fischietto
Fischietto (whistle in english) is the result of a collaboration between estereotips.net and painter Benito Saluzzo. For the occasion of his exhibition in the city of Potenza (Italy), the artist wanted to experiment with new creation paradigms by trying to unveil the production process behind his work and make this process his own work. A picture is made, Whistle, and a video that has accompanied it throughout the show.
Below is the text which was submitted to the public.
Painting is an act from an exact moment. The evolution of composition is divided into an infinite number of gestures, strokes, moments that make the whole creative process. A sequence of actions by the flow of the paint on the canvas travels over airwaves to switch to another domain, that of digital, through the use of sensors attached to the arms of the artist. The materiality of painting comes to life in the gestures that direct the brush; the section controlled by hand is converted to pure data to modulates the sound.
In the digital hyper-democracy the materiality of a color has the same value of the movement of the wind; in this immateriality come to life the rhythm of painting, led by a soft hand that draws the sounds of his movements in the air.
The painter Making this painting the painter escapes from conventional explanations; becomes the one who through his actions manipulates data that could also take the form of a concrete color or given away in the uncertainty of the sound data.
The gesture is not connected to the sound production on a direct and immediate way; the interaction between the two worlds is based on accumulation, subtraction and delay, with aims to recreate the artist’s own emotional environment.
An empty room with a window on the world, a field, rarefied sun that changes continuously the vision and thus the perception. Paolo Conte as background, or rather, as an empathic piece that produces a fission, an inner emotional chaos Benito Saluzzi is appropriate for use it as raw material for his painting.
The picture is then a result of a process from color’s creation to their unfolding on the canvas: in this process, the artist chooses to include his inner world expressed by its movements in the exact time of painting. The process then becomes the work, of which the picture is only one materialized, visually perceptible.
