Digital Works by Martino Motti
My analysis starts from the exploration of marine depths and the contact with the creatures living there. In the silence and solitude of that muffled world I can find the ancestral union between the man's inadequacy and the perfection of nature, the inmost unconscious resurfaces and lightens, through the liquid element, to become image, symbol of inner peace. The result I am pursuing, in the keeping of real living beings 'shapes and colours, revises that uniqueness in the attempt to isolate their essence in a positive and vital perspective.
“Martino Motti belongs to that new generation of artists gifted with potentialities who, working in visual communication, can express by new means that “man's inadequacy” alive and spontaneously declared, showing us captivating results – nature has always been source of artistic inspiration – at any time and by any means. The choice of computer applied to underwater photography is a way of evoking a generic meaning of primitive life originated from water. A world seen and operationally engaged in a playful way in a succession of mental matchings, with a means born about sixty years ago: the computer. These operations refer to underwater natural world pictures in reversed combinations, with symmetrical structural transformation of a surprising effect. The images are real and winning for their elegance, seriality and chromatism due to the use of computer.
The intelligent bent of the author in this interesting operation is accompanied by a perspective of further occasions and opportunities for an in-depth study and use of the product in different spheres. We are only at the beginning of a new generation in the field of graphic display which has still got a wide horizon to explore, besides the task of 'preserving' that immediate, fresh and genuine communication ability. Martino Motti is young, with inspired energy in his first exhibition (he works for underwater and nautical magazines, including Folco Quilici), for which I wish all the best, not only for personal success and public attention but also for the critics, for that sense of primitive instinct, clearly stated, attainable only by active work. Also because this kind of work is still far from consolidated cultural and historical contexts.”
Romano Rizzato
Milano, March 2010
“Martino Motti belongs to that new generation of artists gifted with potentialities who, working in visual communication, can express by new means that “man's inadequacy” alive and spontaneously declared, showing us captivating results – nature has always been source of artistic inspiration – at any time and by any means. The choice of computer applied to underwater photography is a way of evoking a generic meaning of primitive life originated from water. A world seen and operationally engaged in a playful way in a succession of mental matchings, with a means born about sixty years ago: the computer. These operations refer to underwater natural world pictures in reversed combinations, with symmetrical structural transformation of a surprising effect. The images are real and winning for their elegance, seriality and chromatism due to the use of computer.
The intelligent bent of the author in this interesting operation is accompanied by a perspective of further occasions and opportunities for an in-depth study and use of the product in different spheres. We are only at the beginning of a new generation in the field of graphic display which has still got a wide horizon to explore, besides the task of 'preserving' that immediate, fresh and genuine communication ability. Martino Motti is young, with inspired energy in his first exhibition (he works for underwater and nautical magazines, including Folco Quilici), for which I wish all the best, not only for personal success and public attention but also for the critics, for that sense of primitive instinct, clearly stated, attainable only by active work. Also because this kind of work is still far from consolidated cultural and historical contexts.”
Romano Rizzato
Milano, March 2010
Critic Review from "Satura Art Gallery" for the Volume "Profili d'Artista 2014"
Photographically aimed at a marine habitat as submerged, detached, primordial locus amoenus, Martino Motti probes through it the spaces for an pristine formative,proliferation places where the single shot is a precursor of a fantastic reworking that has its fulcrum in the construction / exponential multiplication of visual patterns shaped according to the loop logic (formal), following a schematic-decorative precision at the same time inclined to provoke a lively optical destabilization. The sea - unveiled in the depths to bring to light a whole cosmos of artistically expressive subjects - is the object of an intensive reworking, necessarily indiscernible from the reinterpretative will inherent in the re-creative unfolding of the compositions conceived by Motti; which simultaneously possess the aesthetic and intellectual qualities of digitally induced geometrical research, without however shielding a declared decorative outcome oriented towards the lyrical abstraction of forms and colors. A photographic image chosen as the first starting point, the original melting pot of reminiscences and suggestions to be used as a means to suspend and sustain the whole complex artistic-artificial-natural scaffolding set up by Motti, theoretical assumptions - even before being formal - necessary to generate the rational graphics of a shell using only the whirling rotation of the original subject (Shell), as well as moving from the natural bright red of a hedgehook taken up in macro photography until the appearance of a metamorphic incandescent trail, aimed at sucking prospectively into the depths of its own infinitely chromatic vital essence (Incandescence). Now, spread out as ultra-worked and perfect tapestries in every detail, the anemones take on the characteristic ornamental aspect of elegantly elaborate arabesques, bend their innate harmony to the artificial constitution of fluid stylistic-tonal balances, or rhythm the extraordinary features of unrealistic mutant creatures.
