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Dot Matrix Portraits

"The chiaroscuro gives sculptural plasticity to these images which, depending on different angles of observation, truly seem to emerge as if carved in marble, or in rock. The use of black and white allows the author to achieve, through the skillful and laborious application of ink and solvents, chiaroscuro at multiple levels, which give substance and materiality to the images. De Gennaro's divisionist portraits certainly fall within the realm of cold media, those which have the spectator as the focal point. It is up to the viewer to reconstruct the faces and recognize them. What currently differentiates De Gennaro's approach from that of Seurat, beyond the technique of execution, is certainly the preference for black and white. The matrix of points, a technique used in these works, is a grid that generates images and graphics, based on the points that are "activated" and "deactivated". It is the principle underlying printing and many digital devices and presupposes an active participation of the viewer, who is called upon to "recompose" these images divided into dots. It is precisely in the late nineteenth-century divisionism that we must identify the source of inspiration for this visual approach, a precursor and anticipator of the pixels on the modern screen. In the technique of divisionism, we find an invitation to set aside our particular interests to consider ourselves part of the whole. We are dots composing a universe and each of us can and must contribute to the harmony of the cosmos." -

Lorenza Cariello (MAMBO - Museum of Modern Art of Bologna)

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"Women Press"

"E pluribus unum"

Portraits of love

This is a collection of portraits created to celebrate the role of female reporters, primarily Italian, and later expanded to the international arena.

Women of journalism.

Dot matrix portraits for freedom.
This collection of 13 portraits was born following the invasion of Ukraine, with the intention of representing some of those souls from which the breath of fraternal freedom is unleashed. And from this, the first embryo of a broader project was born, aimed at extending the collection to all Presidents of the United States.

A selection of dot-matrix portraits of the souls that have unconsciously influenced and inspired the artist throughout their life.

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