leonardo ulian
artist statement:
I am interested in how Systems can be applied in the
process of making art, how something can survive within a scheme of
convention, exploring the system itself in order to understand it, and
perhaps, trying to find a condition of artistic autonomy within the
framework I created. Like Mondrian’s grids, the abstraction in my work
has to survive, and find a place within a defined structure.
My Modus
Operandi also embraces my passions for electronic, music, science and
graphic design. I like to define myself as a multimedia artist, and my
art works as playthings. As with childhood toys, art objects can be seen
as many distorted mirrors of the everyday, a caricature of the real.
This sometimes does not need to be pleasant-looking or easy to use but has
to possess, above all, a high degree of play value, which is what
defines the capacity of a Toy/ Artifact to stimulate and engage the
viewer. This moves the attention of the spectator in places they
probably know, but they have forgotten, unconscious against rational and
vice-versa.