Source: RADIO LOMBARDIA

official article excerpt:

Journalist – Nicoletta Prandi
00:00:00 – 00:00:08
… and we’ll be back live to talk to you a little about art but also about digital art together with Cesare Catania, painter, sculptor and digital artist already connected with us. Welcome!

Cesare Catania
00:00:10 – 00:00:11
Hi everyone,

Journalist – Nicoletta Prandi
00:00:12 – 00:00:40
we decide to give each other the tu? Your works are exhibited these days in Milan at the San Babila D’Arte gallery. There are fourteen new works including paintings and sculptures. And then I would also like to address with you the theme of how digital is innovating the art world, but also the way to use it. Let’s start with the works on display.

Cesare Catania
00:00:41 – 00:01:45
Yes, at the moment fourteen new works and sixteen belonging to the old collections are on display. The new works are substantially a sort of introspection on what is the psychological and emotional journey that an artist experiences when approaching a new canvas or a sculpture yet to be created. So all feelings are touched…. In short, from happiness to shyness. Shyness understood as shyness towards the blank canvas. So the artist who feels small in front of a still unpainted canvas. And again within the exhibition, themes related to digital are dealt with, in the sense that I present seven collections of NFTs and digital art within some holographic display cases. The exhibition also presents three digital artworks connected to three works by historicized artists: Edvard Munch, Andy Warhol and Fabergè.

Journalist – Nicoletta Prandi
00:02:37 – 00:03:23
Connecting with us again Cesare Catania. You were telling us about the historicized works… I want to remind you that you have already inaugurated your personal gallery in the metaverse. And then you are the artistic director of Metaword, the first virtual platform, also an app, where users can share, sell or promote their metaverse. In fact I would also like to try to explain, to the uninitiated, what the effects are and then ask you for a reflection on this fact. Because if we think, for example, of the works of Michelangelo and Raphael that have helped us to live centuries of art after Christ, well… there is a great wall that separates art, traditionally understood, from digital art. You have to know how to enjoy… Anyone could have gone to see a work by Raphael or Michelangelo. At the very least, he wouldn’t have understood it all the way…

Cesare Catania

00:03:25 – 00:04:17

Si certo… parto dal fondo…. L’arte digitale; secondo me va intesa come una sorta di amplificatore delle emozioni, delle sensazioni. Quindi diciamo che all’inizio probabilmente la cosa lasciava un po’ perplessi. Perché si pensava che l’arte digitale potesse essere una semplice replica dell’arte tradizionale. In realtà non è così, almeno così non la vivo io… Secondo me l’arte digitale ha tanti plus a tanti valori aggiunti, ed è giusto che ci si concentri su questi. Quali sono? Beh, innanzitutto il primo in assoluto è riferito alla parte dimensionale. Cioè, quando dipingo un quadro o realizzo una scultura, come primo limite ho il limite della fisica e della geometria del quadro che ho davanti. É la stessa cosa penso che l’avessero tutti gli artisti storicizzatati, quindi Michelangelo, piuttosto che Andy Warhol. Tutti insomma…

L’arte digitale, in questo senso, ci mette davanti alla condizione di non avere limiti, quindi è un’arte che si esprime senza alcun limite fisico e questa cosa sicuramente giova prima di tutto all’artista (perché l’artista in quel momento ha la possibilità di esprimersi con un’opera d’arte che è più grande rispetto alle dimensioni che in realtà avrebbe normalmente). Ma non solo… piu’ grande non solo da un punto di vista dimensionale, ma anche in termini di spazio-tempo.