Artist Spotlight - Aurelio Gaiga — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

Born in 1969 in Villafranca di Verona ( Italy ).
Lives and works in Villafranca di Verona.
1989 : high school diploma from State Art School ( Verona ).
After school he began to take an interest in the world of contemporary art, visiting exhibitions in galleries and museums and reading art magazines.

Untitled, 2024, oilstick and oil on canvas, 80x100 cm

After visiting an exhibition dedicated to Paul Klee at Palazzo Forti ( Verona ), in 1996 he decided to start painting because that was his path.
After some changes in style, for some years he has been approaching a painting that investigates the growing impact that technology has and will increasingly have on our lives.

Interference 59, 2022, oil on canvas, 80x100 cm

Artist Statement

Aurelio Gaiga is an artist who lives and works in Villafranca di Verona.
His practice materializes in medium-sized oil paintings on canvas.
The brushstrokes are swift and thick and the colors vivid and intense.

Interference 44, 2021, oil on canvas, 70x100 cm

The subjects of his works, engaged in everyday activities, are developed from digital photographs.
With a (dis)figurative approach, Gaiga reduces the image to its pixels and reproduces them on canvas in analog format. These deconstruted images often stem from contemporary social, political and economic events that carry strong iconic value, embedding themselves in the collective imagination as historic turning points.

The artist invites reflection on the growing influence of technology on human life.
The distortions Gaiga applies to the image echo the manipulations it undergoes in technological processes, such as television interference, digital glitches or the seductive artifices through which new technologies are presented, polished and free from any formal conflict, ready to be consumed.

Interference 63, 2023, oil on canvas, 70x100 cm

Although painting may seem like a traditional medium, Gaiga views it as a tool for questioning automation. Rather than representing a loss of human control, his practice seeks to raise awareness of the need to estabilish a new relantionship with technology - not by fearing it, but by learning to critically evaluate its most controversial aspects.

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