DATE:
01/11/2009
CORPUS:
dudy guard
../Related Objects
KEYWORD:
#installation #documents #digital image
CULTURAL DEFINITION:
../Edition: 1 / 1
TECHNICAL DATA:
../Object:
complex
../Matter and technique: CNC turning, painted wood
../Measures: 17,311296 mt3
../Weight: 13449,45 kg
DESCRIPTION: Dudy Guard is the title of a digital photograph taken from the f's personal archive. The file size is 508 Kb and contains 513,315 pixels in 256 colors. A software, developed by engineer G.D., has calculated and located the pixels for each color in the image. This documentation is used to transform each pixel into a wooden voxel (i.e., half-cubes measuring 4x4x2.5 cm), painted with a varnish derived from the original RGB code of the pixel. Each color that makes up the entire image is referred to as a "work portion". Each portion is accompanied by a folder containing a data sheet indicating its position in the digital grid of the original image and a sales contract, which states that the portion is authentic only if the buyer does not own any other portions of the same work. The price of each portion is proportional to the cost of production of the same. Therefore, prices vary from a few euros to a few thousand euros.
The possibility that the entire original image can be reassembled is limited to the remote event that all portions are made and distributed. If it were to be totally reassembled in this way, the image would weigh 13,449.45 kg, occupy an area of 22.4x36.6 meters, and have a total volume of 17.311296 m³.
f' uses the half-cubes as raw material to construct, for each exhibition occasion, a temporary and changing installation, adapted to each new space without any reference to the original image from which they derive.
THEMES:
../#specificity:
social
../#body:
interaction
../#identity:
technology
SOURCES AND DOCUMENTS:
../Images:
../Information card [pdf]: Dudy Guard.pdf
../Bibliography:
Dudy Guard, Galleria Gomiero 2012 |a bassa definizione, di Guido Bartorelli, Cleup sc 2021
../Exhibition:
2009, private residence, curated by Mara Ambrozic Venezia.
2012, Galleria Gomiero, Milano
2014, BG3 BIENNALE GIOVANI curated by Renato Barilli, Guido Bartorelli, Guido Molinari, Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna
2016, Smartup Optima, Premio di Arte Contemporanea, Napoli.
../Collection: artist archive
