Released May 25, 2023
After 30 years of both analog and digital photographic experimentation, with this series entitled Circus Republic, composed of heterogeneous groups of improbable characters, I wanted to experiment with the paradox of false photography, the synthetic illusion of reality through the pseudo-photographic unpredictability generated by Artificial Intelligence algorithms, drawing inspiration from the classic compositional structure of group photographs from the last century by authors such as August Sanders, William Klein, Walker Evans, and anonymous portraitists of the late 1800s. It's a visual approach described with a taste for the Pop and cinematic, similar to the well-known Fellinian visions, a kind of Theatre of the Absurd declined through prompts and images, populated by individuals with often improbable anatomy and rendered with grotesque features, also thanks to the errors of AI, which I always welcome as an added value of a new aesthetic language, an essential and intrinsic characteristic of this new creative tool. So it's a mental projection with a distinctly Dadaist heritage and without any formal limits, a feeling free from aesthetic superstructures and destined to provoke that typical disorientation of visual shortcircuit. In compositional terms, each image is made up of dozens of distinct elements generated separately, and then selected and assembled digitally into a single staged representation, as Max Ernst would have done with his surreal collages and exactly with the same criteria that I have used so far, with both analog and digital photography, transitioning from the darkroom to the virtuality of CGI. To paraphrase an aphorism by Orson Welles, "AI is much more than a generator of visions, it is a means through which images reach us from another world".
Alessandro Bavari*, an Italian-French artist graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, has been attracted to photography, painting and music since he was a child, experimenting over time with different painting techniques and exploring photography as an expressive medium like other disciplines, mixing them together.
Considered one of the pioneers of digital art as well as one of the great representatives of contemporary surrealism, over the years he has developed his own digital artistic language, approaching it in 1993 as a further research discipline.
In 2011 he won the Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica with Metachaos, first prize for best animation.
It is thanks to this futuristic video that Alessandro in 2017 was contacted by 20th Century Fox as concept artist for the movie Alien: Covenant, via direct call from Sir Ridley Scott.
He continues to work as an art director in cinema, with directors such as Gabriele Lavia and Luca Guadagnino, as well as a concept artist and art director in the field of videogames.
In addition to the Golden Nica, he collects various prizes including the Digital Hall of Fame Award at the 3D Festival Awards in Copehagen, the Photo-realistic images award at the Adobe The Power of Design - European Competition in London, the 2001 International Digital Art Award in Australia, and again at the Clio Awards, the One Show Awards, the Art Director Club Awards and many others.
His works have been published in hundreds of magazines and art books, as well as being a continuous subject of study in universities and institutes around the world.
He has exhibited in various galleries and museums such as at the Salon Art Paris at the Louvre Museum, at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, at the Jyväskylä Art Museum in Finland, at the State of Digital Art exhibition at the Devos Art Museum in USA, at the Digital Hall of Fame in Stockholm, at the Palace of the Arts in Naples, at the Itabashi Art Museum in Tokyo, at the Mimi and Ian Rolland Art and Visual Communication Center in USA, at FIMA - Festival International Montreal en Arts in Canada, at Kronos Art BCN 2020 in Barcelona, at the DigitalArt Factory in Rome and many others.
He also works actively as freelance in the field of ADV, collaborating with agencies such as BBDO, M&C Saatchi, 1861 United, Pentamark, Leagas Delaney, Saatchi & Saatchi, McCann Erickson, Ogilvy & Mather, Armando Testa, Alpha Omega, Doing, The Name, Humans and others, producing campaigns for companies such as Mercedes, Yamaha, Bmw, Husqvarna, Renault, Wolksvagen, Ferrari, Pirelli, Trelleborg, Samsung, Chrysler, Sky TV, Telecom, Enel, Leroy Merlin and many others.
A multifaceted artist, he lives in Italy working as a visual artist, painter, photographer, art director and musician.
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