Alessandro Bavari is an award-winning visual and digital artist of Italian-French origins working across various mediums, including photography, painting and music. Human bodies and its derivatives are a recurrent building block in his works, often depicted in grotesque and macabre tones. “Arturo #01”, in contrast, is extremely vivid in colors, showing a (very much alive judging by the emotions expressed) detached from the body head of a person, looped in endless violent blows within a glass box as if it is a new material that undergoes various strength-proof tests.

Hello, my name is Arturo, and I guess to be a carillon.

Direction and animation: Alessandro Bavari
Soundtrack: Sirio Grimaldi AKA Sirio Gry J feat. Stefano Rocchi“Unknown 1.3”

ARTURO #01

Sentient Sun + Steel

WAHALA from the series THIS IS WHAT HATRED DID

Out of Body

Necessary Evil

This small selection of works looks at how the body and materiality in more broader terms can be explored digitally. Coding, generative and machine programming, detailed 3d rendering can be incredibly powerful tools to explore natural phenomena or alternative scenarios of externalization of internal psychological states pushing the boundaries between worlds and dimensions. The digital realm is often spoken as a space where one is liberated from materiality, from our human bodies. Utopian and dystopian at the same time, this imperative to investigate how technology, old and new, can continuously shape “the shell in the ghost” remains an important field for conducting research.

ARTURO #01

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