Founder of the artist-run space STRUTTURA, Cristallo Odescalchi (Rome, 1981) is an enigmatic artist who uses a double black and white chromatism to develop an aesthetic linked to the origins of digital art and painting, leading the viewer into minimal, symbolic and metaphysical universes. His language derives from what for many years (20) has been an incessant production of notes that, stratified, have found synthesis in symbols inserted into a binary system.
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Black and white, full or empty, straight or curved meet, neutralizing each other, creating assonant residues that tell of various stages of development in relation to the spatiality of the places experienced.
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Finding in the Cormorano Dimension a code of reference for the rest of his works. "In practice, the realization of the works is achieved when I recognize an emotional state in them." (He said of his work). A state that I do not have to suffer directly but that emerges as an image of a dream that my subconscious has naturally elaborated. In conclusion, the preparation for my creative process consists in having lived and in doing nothing". "The mask could be the act of observing personality as an object. My Emoji, for example, has the intermediate expression post laugh that occurs before the muscles relax completely. This to underline the alienation given by perceiving oneself in one's own mechanisms."