Arno Beck. Missed Calls

For his first solo exhibition in the spaces of the Nicola Pedana Gallery, Arno Beck presents a new series of works that bring the digital image in a dialogue with its analog reproduction. The artist paints abstract compositions that appear to have been generated by software, but are actually the result of a pictorial process that preserves ambiguity about the origin of the image itself. Starting from a reflection on painting in the digital age, Beck moves on the border between the two dimensions, playing on simulation and making use of different techniques from which emerges a continuous exchange between hand and machine, an expression of the reality in which we live.

Text by Alessandra Troncone