From April 18 to May 26, the Link Art Center presents in Brussels “Refresh 02”, the second edition of “#LAYERS” with creations by 15 contemporary Italian artists whose work investigates the influence of the Internet and of the digitization on our society.
Since the nineties, the technology has opened new avenues for creativity and has democratized the creation and distribution of images. This democratization poses new challenges to art. How do artists engage with the social and cultural transformations introduced by the web? How do they relate to big data, the cloud, the end of privacy, generative processes, the corruption of digital data, endless scrolling and everything that concerns our online lives?
The title of the exhibition, #LAYERS, refers to the different ways in which digital complexity manifests itself in the works presented: the distinction between code and interface in generative art and glitch art, the creative use of social media, the stratification of different timeframes in the archives of digital memory, the distinction between public and private, material and immaterial, visible and invisible.
#LAYERS was presented for the first time in fall 2016 at the Spazio Contemporanea in Brescia, Italy, and was the first part of “refresh”, a series of group shows featuring recent works by Italian contemporary artists of all generations. “Refresh” is an ongoing investigation firstly conceived by the curator Fabio Paris and the Link Art Center that tackles the themes, languages, and forms that have emerged during the digital turn of the last twenty years.
Artists: Marco Cadioli, Alessandro Capozzo, Pier Giorgio De Pinto, Luca Grillo, IOCOSE, Kamilia Kard, Eva & Franco Mattes, Marco Mendeni, Martina Menegon, Filippo Minelli, Simone Monsi, Alice Palamenghi, Guido Segni, Emilio Vavarella, Carlo Zanni.
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1/ Marco Cadioli, PROTO, 2015
2/ Eva & Franco Mattes, Image Search Result, 2014
