Aurelio Gaiga

Lives and works in Alpo, VR, Italy

Artist statement

Aurelio Gaiga is an artist who lives and works in Villafranca di Verona ( Italy ). His practice materialises in medium-sized oil paintings on canvas. The brushstrokes are rapid and thick, the colours vivid and intense. The subjects of his works, engaged in everyday activities, are developed from digital photographs. With a (dis)figurative approach, Gaiga reduces the image into its pixels and reproduces them on canvas in analog format. The images he deconstruts also stem from current social, political and economic events with strong iconic value, embedding themselves in the collective imagination as historic pivotal points. The artist invites reflection on the increasing influence of technology on human life. The distortion that Gaiga applies to the image echoes the manipulation it undergoes in technological processes, such as television interferences, digital glitches or the seductive artifices through which new technologies are presented ready to be consumed, polished from any formal conflict. Although painting may seem like a traditional means of expression, Gaiga considers it as an exercise to question automation. Rather than representing a loss of human control, his practice is a way to raise awareness of the need to estabilish a different relantionship with technology, not fearing rather learning to critically evaluate its most controversial aspects.

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