MARIANO SARDÓN

Tunnels of Wind

OPENING:  Saturday, 07 May 2022 – H 4.00 pm

10 May 2022 – 09 July 2022

Text by ENNIO BIANCO

When we talk about algorithms in digital art, we are not referring to cold sequences of instructions capable of generating an image or a continuous flow of images, but we are indicating the basic tools that the digital artist has at his disposal, something similar to chemical-physics of the colours of the great Renaissance masters or to the perspective tables by Brunelleschi. Algorithmic Art was born in the 1960s with the first artists who dealt with cybernetics, but it has never stopped evolving and producing spectacular works, as in the case of Mariano Sardón’s “Wind Tunnels”.

Who, among us, hasn’t used all the air in the body to blow and watch the fruits disperse in the landscape picking on a blowball (the “common Dandelion” of the Asteraceae family)? If we could, I have no doubt that we would have decided to blow all over the surrounding landscape as well.

Here, Mariano Sardón has recreated that breath, that wind, with an algorithm and has decided to apply it on each pixel of the images obtained from online datasets, to suggest a metaphor concerning our society, our culture. A culture that in the Digital Age is characterized by an enormous availability of large masses of data linked together, but which nevertheless flounders due to the problems of intellectual property, the privatization of knowledge, and above all the non-mediated access to different opinions.

We are in a process of social transformation in which the previous categories are becoming confused. We live in a world on the verge of extinction, where every conception is questioned and the things we have known have fallen. If we have lived in a liquid modernity, we are living in a gaseous reality», Sardon says while presenting this extraordinary series of works of great charm and beauty.

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ARTWORKS

Mariano Sardón, Wind tunnels – Yellow things, 2022
Mariano Sardón, Wind Tunnels – Yellow Things, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 39,3 x 39,3 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Wind Tunnels – Blue Things, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 39,3 x 39,3 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Wind Tunnels – Green Things, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 39,3 x 39,3 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Wind Tunnels – Violet Things, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 39,3 x 39,3 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Wind Tunnels – Pink Things, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 39,3 x 39,3 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Wind Tunnels – Red Things, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 39,3 x 39,3 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Orbiting Objects – Buenos Aires – Latitudine -34.6 e longitudine -58.4, 2021 (video stills)
Datas visualization, infinite duration
Mariano Sardón, Tunnels of Wind #1, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 50,7 x 50,7 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Tunnels of Wind #3, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 49,2 x 49,2 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Blown People #1, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 50,7 x 50,7 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Floating people #1, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 20,8 x 25,9 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Floating people #2, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 22,44 x 25 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Wind Tunnels Series #2, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 21,6 x 39,3 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Wind Studies #1, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 18,8 x 8,2 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Wind Studies #4, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 18,8 x 8,2 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Wind Studies #2, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 18,8 x 8,2 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Wind Studies #5, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 18,8 x 8,2 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Wind Studies #3, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 18,8 x 8,2 inch.
Mariano Sardón, Wind Studies #6, 2021
C-Prints on aluminum sheet, 18,8 x 8,2 inch.
Mariano Sardón, 1 Minute, 2021
Video 4K
Mariano Sardón, Variation on the wind, 2021
32 C-Prints on aluminum sheets, 7,8 x 7,8 inch. each

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