Sergio Pallante

Statement

My creations begin with mathematical formulas that are transformed into images through the computer and then printed on canvas only when I’m satisfied with the aesthetic result. Therefore selection and superimposition of different formulas, transformation and modification of colors, profusion of choices in probing and amplifying the images as they gradually form and change. Aesthetic pleasure fused and confused with scientific echoes. Moreover, just as interpersonal relationships shape us, transform us, and constitute the very essence of our lives, so too do the interactions between different mathematical formulas modify and transform their existences, transcending the individuality of a single formula.

Artworks

Several centuries have passed since Galileo Galilei affirmed that nature is a book written in mathematical characters, and thus a natural phenomenon must be interpreted as a mathematical formula. Statements that today take on new life, allowing these “characters” to take shape with the support of the technological universe. Just as interpersonal relationships shape us, transform us, and constitute the very essence of our lives, so too do the interactions between different mathematical formulas modify and transform their existences, transcending the individuality of a single formula. Consequently, the titles serve only as suggestions, “according to the degree of paranoia,” as Salvador Dalí would say.

Just as for Luigi Pirandello the characters imagined by the author acquire a life of their own the very moment they are created—so that the author’s task is only to comply with what he himself has allowed to exist—in the same way a mathematical formula holds within itself a potential image, which I must simply make explicit, by yielding to its right to existence.