Artists
Davide Prete
Assistant Professor of Art
University of the District of Columbia, College of Art and Sciences
Washington DC, USA
Statement
In my recent work I bring together classical sculpture and mathematical structure. I begin from fragments of Greek and Roman portraits shaped by time and memory. Rather than restoring them, I reinterpret them through generative patterns that grow inside the figure and sometimes replace it. By opening portions of the surface, the interior becomes visible and part of the image. I am interested in the balance between presence and absence, weight and lightness. The figure becomes a porous system that changes with light and viewpoint. Through this process I connect cultural memory with contemporary making, where form is defined as much by space as by matter.
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