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Non Finito: the art of the Unfinished
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I am thrilled to present my latest research work and art series, an exploration of a Renaissance-rooted tradition that leaves works intentionally unfinished.
With the first piece Non Finito (The Builder) being released early next week, I take this opportunity to share a few details below.
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Non finito looks up close at our relation to transient states and imperfection, by revealing traces of process and deliberately partial images. It invites us to imagine beyond the present state of an artwork, and to appreciate its incompleteness.
From Michelangelo's Prisoners or Rodin's use of sculpture fragments in his Hand of God, to Schubert's Unfinished Symphony and some of Rembrandt's most famous paintings, there has been a centuries-long fascination for unfinished art, from both artists and audiences.
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To give this idea a contemporary reading, Non Finito (the series) integrates digital processes and ordinals-native features in an iterative study of both meaning and form.
Partial renders, visible traces and layers, unresolved details, underdeveloped images are as many examples of digital unfinishedness. As each artwork shifts through code-driven randomisation of these states, aesthetics take shape while asking the question of what counts as complete.
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Non Finito is a series of 1/1 originals paired with limited editions, which will be released one at a time in scarce supply.
Each piece uses recursion to construct a high resolution image (even when low fidelity is at the core of the process), and lets viewers shuffle through countless versions and save their preferred outputs, effectively freezing them in time.
Code and probability are at the heart of this collection of works that are not only unfinished but also open to a multitude of possible outcomes.
What isn't there yet, could be anything.
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I look forward to presenting each iteration over the next few weeks, and watching our shared understanding of artistic processes earn a closer look, and perhaps love, for every step of the creative endeavour.
Non Finito (The Builder) will be available to collect on Mon 27 Oct as both Original and @trygamma Print (announcement to follow).
One question remains: is an artwork ever really finished?
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