Luigi M. Verde
The image is a thread of smoke that rises into the air and changes its shape at every moment. It doesn't just follow a logic or a rule but also a whim that always remains an unfathomable mystery.
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In this series I will discuss the creative process that sparked two works made up of 16 square photographs [...]
In this series I will discuss the creative process that sparked two works made up of 16 square photographs inspired by the dialogue between art and science. We start from the premise that photography is the representation of an idea created through the mediation between our gaze and sensible reality. Conversely, an (un)object that captures our attention can be transformed into an idea to be sealed in an image: I simply reformulated the previous sentence backwards (here comes the first "retroversion"). What would happen now if we tried to follow this process backwards? That is, instead of starting with an object in the physical world, we start from an abstract idea and then arrive at a final artefact. This is the opposite of what we commonly do when taking a photograph: the real object is only subsequently transformed into an idea that we fix on paper or on a screen. Since I wanted to give shape to a curious and restless simulacrum of non-existent female figures, of which only the name and some fleeting and dubious descriptions remain, I will necessarily have to resort to this unusual inversion: I will therefore use an artificial intelligence program to build this sad and narrow memorial of dull, empty, marginal figures, deteriorated by time and vainglory. Subsequently I will place various common objects alongside the printed images in order to recreate a more evocative atmosphere.
For this "artistic experiment" I was inspired by Popper and Eccles' theory of the three worlds. This theory is a philosophical perspective that seeks to explain the complexity of reality in three distinct Worlds:
- The First World refers to the world of objective physical phenomena. It is physical reality, composed of material objects, natural processes and empirically observable events.
- The Second World is the world of mental and subjective phenomena. This world includes the experiences, perceptions, and mental processes that occur within the human mind, including thoughts, emotions, and consciousness.
- The Third World is the world of the products of the human mind, such as language, culture, scientific knowledge, art and social institutions. This world is made up of concepts, ideas, symbols and representations that emerge from human mental activities and influence society and culture.
Popper and Eccles' theory suggests that the three worlds are interconnected and that the complete understanding of reality requires appropriate consideration of each of them. The authors developed such ideas as part of their research into the philosophy of mind and consciousness, seeking to overcome the dichotomy between the objective world of science and the subjective world of human experience.
My goal is thus to create a photographic work of art that passes from World Three to World One, through World Two. Ultimately, if we assume as a hypothesis that art resides in the world of ideas and knowledge, then even the use of new technologies based on generative Artificial Intelligence do not represent any threat to our creative process, but offer us new tools to expand the need to express, in new and increasingly profound ways, our personality.
For this "artistic experiment" I was inspired by Popper and Eccles' theory of the three worlds. This theory is a philosophical perspective that seeks to explain the complexity of reality in three distinct Worlds:
- The First World refers to the world of objective physical phenomena. It is physical reality, composed of material objects, natural processes and empirically observable events.
- The Second World is the world of mental and subjective phenomena. This world includes the experiences, perceptions, and mental processes that occur within the human mind, including thoughts, emotions, and consciousness.
- The Third World is the world of the products of the human mind, such as language, culture, scientific knowledge, art and social institutions. This world is made up of concepts, ideas, symbols and representations that emerge from human mental activities and influence society and culture.
Popper and Eccles' theory suggests that the three worlds are interconnected and that the complete understanding of reality requires appropriate consideration of each of them. The authors developed such ideas as part of their research into the philosophy of mind and consciousness, seeking to overcome the dichotomy between the objective world of science and the subjective world of human experience.
My goal is thus to create a photographic work of art that passes from World Three to World One, through World Two. Ultimately, if we assume as a hypothesis that art resides in the world of ideas and knowledge, then even the use of new technologies based on generative Artificial Intelligence do not represent any threat to our creative process, but offer us new tools to expand the need to express, in new and increasingly profound ways, our personality.
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Biography
Welcome to the fantastic world of Luigi M. Verde, a metaphysical place where the author passionately celebrates the creative fusion of his two souls: Art and Science. Luigi was born in Melfi, in the suggestive South of Italy, in a distant spring of 1969, an era in which digital art was still a distant and futuristic concept. During his studies in physics and cybernetics, he discovered a deep passion for black and white photography and the darkroom.
For over three decades, Luigi has been conducting a very personal research that combines his interests in philosophy, programming and natural language, with the irresistible desire to express himself artistically through photography, the creation of digital paintings and the creation of books. 'art. To avoid remaining in the shadows, he actively participates in numerous cultural events both in Italy and abroad and is actively dedicated to dissemination.
Luigi's intent is to create artistic works that enhance the complexity and vast range of combinations of the digital world, without however neglecting the importance of gestures and artisanal knowledge. What makes his works unique are the manual interventions carried out during the printing phase, which give a more personal touch to each creation. These interventions allow you to convey a greater emotional impact, elevating its meaning to a higher level.
Luigi's art is conceptual, where, like a detective dealing with problems of philosophy and linguistic whims, he tries to give shape and conception to ideas. Each creation is an enigma to be revealed, a world of profound meanings waiting to be deciphered and told. Luigi defines himself as a visionary artist with an ironic, informal and extremely synthetic approach, with one foot firmly rooted in artistic tradition and the other in the digital age.
We invite you to explore the gallery of his works, allowing yourself to be emotionally involved in the whirlwind of ideas and suggestions.
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Nationality:
ITALY
- Date of birth : 1969
- Artistic domains: Works by artists with a certified artist value, Works by professional artists,
- Groups: Certified Artists Professional Artist Contemporary Italian Artists
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Influences
Education
2001 - 2023
Libero professionista
Reggio Emilia,
Italy
1987 - 1993
Laurea in Fisica ad orientamento Cibernetico
Napoli,
Italy
Artist value certified
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Artist Value Digital Arts 2024 | €1,200.00 ($1,398.84)
Certification has been established by Jacques-Armand Akoun on Jan 10, 2024.
Achievements
Collective Expositions
2024
Yicca Contest 23/24
Milano - MATALON FOUNDATION,
Italy
Publications & Press
Solo Expositions
2012
La Frontiera, L'ignoto, L'eresia
"Istituto italiano per gli Studi Filosofici" palazzo Serra di Cassano,
Napoli,
Italy
2011
L'uomo, Il Tempo, La Natura
Biblioteca ed Emeroteca comunale di Villa Bruno,
San Giorgio a Cremano (Na),
Italy
2007
Sguardi Sulle Basiliche Di Cimitile
Società Cicero Deutsch-Italienische Gesellschaft di Schwerin,
Germany
2006
Memorie Di Pietra
Städtische Galerie "sohle 1" di Bergkamen,
Germany
2005
Memorie Di Pietra
Consolato d'Italia a Dortmund,
Germany
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My artistic practice consciously moves in an area of undecidability, inhabiting that liminal space where photography, drawing, painting and writing converge in an uninterrupted dialogue. I do not consider this hybrid approach as a simple sum of techniques, but as the affirmation of a poetics that recognizes its generative core in the tension between different languages. Although my works present manual interventions, geometric signs and material stratifications, I consider them fundamentally post-photographs as they maintain a profound connection with the indexical nature of the photographic medium. This media ambiguity is not indecision, but an active semantic strategy.
I am particularly interested in what Jacques Rancière defines as a thoughtful image, an entity that does not simply illustrate a pre-existing thought, but constitutes a magnetic field charged with unresolved tensions, resistant to univocal meanings. The work thus becomes a space of perpetual oscillation between apparently opposite polarities: technological automatism and manual gesture, documentation and creation, material presence and conceptual abstraction.
My creative process reflects this threshold condition: photographic elements are deconstructed and recontextualized, but never completely denied; pictorial interventions assert their materiality without erasing the underlying photographic trace; geometric signs impose a visual order that dialogues with the organic complexity of the captured image; words insinuate themselves between the visual layers, not to explain them but to amplify their ambiguity.
This hybrid practice mirrors our contemporary reality, culturally and technologically fragmented, where images, texts and data constantly mix. I am not interested in resolving this ambiguity, but in consciously inhabiting it in a contemporary landscape, where distinctions between artistic disciplines become increasingly porous.
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Added Jul 31, 2025
visio(so)phie, foto[so]phie e meta{so}phie
What happens when photography ceases to be a simple representation of reality and becomes an active form of thought?visio(so)phie, foto[so]phie, and meta{so}phie is the title of a vast theoretical and visual project that presents itself not merely as a short essay, but as a true conceptual device. A hybrid work in which visual art, philosophy, and language meet, collide, and transform…
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Added Jul 12, 2025
Anatomy of Reason
There exists an intimate and hidden space where reason and madness meet, giving birth to a visual archaeology of the human soul. In this work, I seek to inhabit that fragile fault line where meaning trembles, reconstituting itself in new and unexpected forms...
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Added Jun 16, 2025
Common Places: A Geography of the Soul against Contemporary Homologation
In the hidden heart of our interior landscapes lie "common places" that no image can ever fully tell. Yet, paradoxically, it is precisely through photography that these spaces can speak to us again, revealing that dimension of experience that contemporary speed has made invisible. What makes a place "common"? Not its banality, as we might think, but rather the excess of meaning that makes it transparent to our accustomed gaze.
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Added Jun 15, 2025
The Syntax of the Visual
Have you ever looked at a photograph and felt completely free to interpret it? That freedom, which we often mistake for expressive richness, actually hides one of the deepest paradoxes of contemporary visual communication. Every time we find ourselves faced with an isolated image, we enter an unstable semantic territory, where meanings multiply and disperse without control.
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Added Jun 9, 2025
Bacon's Idols and Contemporary Art
In his Novum Organum of 1620, Francis Bacon identified four categories of idols, false notions that hinder authentic knowledge of reality. These idola represented four cognitive vices that prevented access to truth: the idola tribus (of the tribe), rooted in human nature; the idola specus (of the cave), deriving from individual inclinations; the idola fori (of the market), generated by social language; and the idola theatri (of the theater), produced by dominant philosophical systems. Looking at the panorama of contemporary art with the diagnostic acuity of the English philosopher, a worrying picture emerges: today's artistic system seems pervaded by mechanisms that closely resemble these ancient obstacles to knowledge.
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Added Jun 5, 2025
Don't ask us for the word
The ancient statue, with its marble perfection, represents the human aspiration toeternity through form. But it is in the photographic trace, in its capacity to beindefinitely reproduced and reinterpreted, that the true nature of the contemporarysign manifests itself. It is not decoration, but arcane substance: it is the archetypalcode that Derrida speaks of, that original form that allows thought to existindependently of the one who thinks it.
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Added May 29, 2025
Poised in stillness
The silence of the soul is a state of total receptivity, a condition of deep listening that precedes any form of authentic knowledge. “La pietra che respira è quella che ha conosciuto il silenzio dell’anima” becomes both metaphor and reconciliation of matter that has transcended its inert condition, through a spiritual metamorphosis and thanks to an encounter with contemplative silence.
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Added May 23, 2025
The Doubt Theorem
Three identical muses and queens, draped in elegant evening gowns and their faces concealed behind bovine‑skull masks, conjure a modern echo suspended between classical tragedy and medieval sacred pageantry...
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Added May 18, 2025
This is but a small cry of pain!
Three identical muses and queens, draped in elegant evening gowns and their faces concealed behind bovine‑skull masks, conjure a modern echo suspended between classical tragedy and medieval sacred pageantry...
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Added May 18, 2025
Of permanent shadow and the fragile memory of an instant
This stone is an oxymoron sculpted by nature and chance, geological memory and instantaneous fracture, polished like an ancestral thought on one face and torn like a sudden trauma on the other...
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Added May 18, 2025
Monologue
A statue, millennial emblem of formal perfection, becomes a battlefield for opposing forces. In the interstice between truth, freedom and world, opens the scarlet wound that breaks and traverses the work, not a scar but rather a revelation, a tear that unveils the impossibility of harmonious synthesis....
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Added May 13, 2025
PAX
Peace is not a place to reach, but a gaze to cultivate. A gaze capable of seeing the light even when the clouds seem to have conquered every corner of the sky. A gaze that can recognize, in the cracks of the world and in the wounds of existence, not only the fragility of what passes, but also the stubborn, wonderful persistence of what, despite everything, continues to flourish.
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Added May 12, 2025
'Pensive Image' by Jacques Rancière: A Zone of Undecidability between Reason and Experience
In the panorama of contemporary aesthetic philosophy, few concepts shine with such an intense and revealing light as that of the thoughtful image, masterfully theorized by Jacques Rancière. A conceptual constellation that, like a prism, refracts and reconfigures our understanding of the visual, inaugurating unexplored territories of critical reflection and aesthetic sensitivity.
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Added May 8, 2025
Photo based art
In this space between traditions and new visual languages, between virtuality and physicality, between concept and matter, I find my most authentic expressive dimension. I am not interested in resolving ambiguity, but in inhabiting it consciously...
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Added May 4, 2025
Happy birthday!
The fusion between the intimacy of personal storytelling – a love declared through the lens – and universal reflection on art and time
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Added Apr 16, 2025
L'ho visto con gli occhi di un clown
Introducing "L'ho visto con gli occhi di un clown" from my blog:
#photography #portrait #blackandwhite
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Added Apr 3, 2025
"Se mi fai il ritratto ti sparo!"
Introducing "Se mi fai il ritratto ti sparo!" ('If you take my portrait, I'll shoot you!'): a black and white photographic exploration of the conflict between the craving for visibility and the ancestral terror of being discovered.
#photography #portrait #blackandwhite #contemporaryart #IfYouTakeMyPortraitIllShootYou
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Added Mar 6, 2025
In the silence of my secret gardens
Fragments of an internal dialogue in black and white. Ruins, islands, silences and the enigmatic gaze of a she-devil. In this work I explore the labyrinth of existence, the fragile beauty of disenchantment, the secret melody that beats in the heart of lost things. A photographic journey into the soul, in search of an obstinate quiet and a truth hidden in the folds of the shadow.
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Added Nov 27, 2024
Beyond the surface: contemporary art between Ontology, Gnoseology and Epistemology
I share with the readers of Artmajeur a new post published in my blog on the relationship between photography and language:
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Added Nov 22, 2024
Art in the times of the ephemeral
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Reviews and comments
©2024 Luigi M. Verde
Egidoro
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Lavori molto interessanti. Complimenti.
©2024 Luigi M. Verde
©2024 Luigi M. Verde
Merci beaucoup Carol!
Très beau travail avec un imaginaire incroyable.
Cordialement
Carole Labeyrie
Very beautiful work with incredible imagination.
Sincerely
Carole Labeyrie
A ringrazia vi per a spassighjata inde a mo galleria è e scelte !
Un salutu di Corsica !
Very and refined artist, TOP+++
Excellent!!! Congratulations...
©2023 Luigi M. Verde
Come puoi non amarlo!!! Splendida !
Stupendo lavoro di luce e creatività. Ben fatto ! Adoro !!
Grazie Jean-François!
Congratulations. Super image!
Danke Franz, ich schätze deine Meinung sehr!
Surrealismus, wie ich ihn noch nicht gesehen habe, hier kann man wirklich vom Unterbewusstsein eines einzigartigen Künstlers sprechen. Bravo!
Superbe ! Magnifique univers ,bravo !
Grazie Jean Philippe! ;-)
©2018 Luigi M. Verde
©2018 Luigi M. Verde
Un surrealismo moderno, aereo e tonificante !