“'Memorie' was created with the 2D software 'Creator 2.3'. The work has been made as the representation of my expressive ideas directly on a graphic tablet. I used a confluence of signs, shades, veils and embosses as a basis, adding more and more layers until various layered surfaces emerged. In this sense, the computer was used for its typical functions such as embossing, masking, shading, as well as for searching for that artistic balance with a degree of ease and speed that cannot be compared to other artistic techniques.
With this work I wanted to express something deep, persistant, related to the past and consisting of layers in which something might be added or happen or not at all. I have used the same approach in painting and in traditional graphics, and what fascinates me after all these years is that these techniques blend into each other and are merged into something that I consider my cultural luggage.
Computer graphics do have a great area of research ahead them, and maybe this is the extra stimulus the contemporary artist finds in this sector of art, the possibility of overcoming the limits of space imposed upon us by the traditional techniques. Maybe the most interesting matter is that after seven years of work, I notice that the use of the computer is conditioning my way of being an artist; I have deeply internalized its characteristics, its functions, what you can do and what you can't, and all of that is fused with that I am, with my intellectual and artistic positions.” (Patrizia Pio)

Technical background:

HW: Silicon Graphics
SW: Creator 2.3

Patrizia Pio wurde 1959 in Rom geboren. 1983 Diplom für Dekoration an der Accademia di Belle Arti, Rom, mit Auszeichnung. Seit 1984 angestellt bei CGE/SBP Rom als Computergraphik-Künstlerin. Mitglied der Künstlergruppe TRACCE, Rom. Zahlreiche künstlerische Experimente in Malerei, Graphik und Computergraphik. 1990 in der Auswahl von SIGGRAPH Art Show, Dallas.