"Keeping track of flowers’ movements and natural elements, digitally molded, and giving them back as video content, I conducted research on the natural aesthetic and digital imagery, working with the modelling and simulation of forces like wind and gravity; prototypes of flowers and plant elements whose movement, carefully organized and recreated, leaves behind his unfolding a trace, a path, a gentle and colored footprint, like a natural sign – hence the title “Shomei” (Signature). Unexpected and everchanging, a ballet of softly twisting shaded shapes. The soundtrack is composed by environmental sounds and tapes that I selected through time, commanded by the use of my voice and re-recorded in real time, drawing inspiration from the animated product".

Manuel Gardina brought his garden into The Address Gallery. We find it under our feet, it seems milky from the darkness, it flourishes in front of our eyes. Subtle, it throws itself into us: a luxurious vegetation that, while bowing down, digs spaces and cavities of possible gaps, makes little noises, triggers very slow movements.

Ensemble is the first Italian presentation of Gardina’s new path, focused on the inquiry on and about the new media, aimed at revisiting and digitally summarizing the surrounding world, analyzing(it) with the PC’s eye and translating the spontaneousness into programmed languages of codes and technology, into a wider reflection on the boundary between natural and artificial.

Exctracted from: Press Release by Ilaria Bignotti