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As you know, we give a stage to young people who make music...
...to young people who make art.
After, we'll have a link from the conservatory.
We begin to see some of the works of Andrea Cecchi.
The work I do, is based on the concept of simplicity.
The concept of simplicity is, for me, a sense of primordium...
...is the sense of the mind coming closer to the image
I was talking about istinct, primordium...
...the image that encounters the visual cortex across the eye.
In fact, the project that I'm carrying out for about 3 years...
...is called "Brodmann 17".
This is inspired by the seventeenth Brodmann area...
...which is an area of the brain, responsible for the vision in primates.
So, do you turn it also in conceptual art?
You are talking me about something deeply conceptual.
This is not a visual art to understand outright.
I think that the issue...
...is a bit sophisticated, a little scientific, but...
...the content is thought to be of immediate impact.
The man must be able to immediately recognize...
...colors, shapes and spaces, essential elements of the image.
When I make this sort of image I try to create a kind of...
...of, let's say, virtual reality...
...an imaginary space in which the observer can...
...find a place from where he doesn't take something like...
...an emotion that I transmit into the work...
... and that goes to the viewer itself.
Instead, a place where the viewer can just imagine...
...what he needs to feel in each of the images I do.
For example, this is a more abstract kind of work.
And even here, you say, you don't give a guideline for...
...the interpretation, but you leave it to the viewers,
and you leave what is perceptible to the one who feels.
Yes.
I would like to ask you if, in this type of art,
you ever sense a bit of distrust from the public.
For example: "Yes but, this art is made with a computer...
Those are minor arts." Sometimes we think this...
...in plain language.
So...
...no matter what, whatever the public thinks from this point of view.
Bravo! You don't give a damn about the public, obviously!
Well, I don't usually say that they are made with the computer,
sometimes many of my works may appear more like photos.
Apart from those that are obviously metaphysical, let's say.
However, with regard to landscapes,
I try to trick the eyes into thinking they're not digital
Unless it is obvious.
I wonder why. Is this to hide something that...
...coud lead the viewer to...
To think bad? No, I don't think so.
But first, I let them see the work, then I eventually talk abut the techinque.
Even so, the fact that I create those with the computer...
...it is not against me, against my thoughts.
Because the process of creating a space that...
...a landscape that does not have my contamination,
is a very important thing I always try to do.
When I design or definitely create a place,
I do it, when I am in a definite state of calm, tranquillity...
I don't want that... I don't want the image to pass my feelings,
anger, mental stress, anxiety.
I want any type of emotional state to be bypassed,
beacuse it could pass in the image and convey on a subconscious level...
What you are feeling...
What I perceive and I transmit in the work.
So, tabula rasa. You deeply try to transmit...
I try to convey a sort of calm on which the observer...
...has the full ability to imagine and...
...to space out with imagination.
You are very young, just tell me in closing about this project.
Now, of course, you see it developed in the future.
How do you see yourself? What is the concept to which you want to go?
So I will precisely develop what I'm doing,
Brodmann 17, this is the temporary name.
This aim is to recreate an ideal, imaginary,
virtual place, if you will...
...not «made on computer»,
but «potential reality»...
...visible to all, which is available to everyone.
Do you want us to dream?
Yes.
Applause!
Thanks! Andrea Cecchi, thanks for coming.
Good luck!
Thank you.