“Remind Me or 999 lost thoughts or don’t ask me I haven’t a clue” is a series of text driven visual art works which invites the viewer to participate with the artist to discover his lost thoughts, involving diary notes, art techniques, other artists, politics, art concepts, philosophy, art, academia, life, time – pretty much everything that goes into living and dying in glorious colour. Basically a self help manual to survive as an individual in society where contradiction and general malaise appears to be the norm. Using such media as hologram, mixed media, scrambled words, fried humour and irrationality as well as lost thoughts.
Remind me – who can you ask when no one knows?
In this series of works, created over 2011 – 2013 Adriano uses text in the notes to challenge or question preconceived attitudes and myopic viewing. “Remind me, implies that I simply don’t know. The reason I don’t know is that I have doubts about what is… and why it is… and why should it be? Is there no other way? If we deal in infinite space then Remind Me implies that the people I am referring to – my viewers – have the opportunity to state why it is not so, to have an opinion based on the knowledge that has been learnt. The knowledge I seek is the ambiguity of everything.”
Many of the works are tilted or skewed, to allow exploration that play upon the ambivalence of the skew, both the vertical and the horizontal, combined with other mixed media such as paint, resins gold. In Remind Me the imagery is not intended to be illustrative of the question they are more akin to a Buddhist koan (a story, question, or statement, which is used in Zen-practice to provoke the “great doubt”) The scale of the works range from 500mm x 500mm to 2420 x 1220mm (approx. 20”x 20” to 8’x 4’)
Adriano combines the diary notes and other media with the reflective hologram with which he has used to produce a large number of art works. The technique for using reflective hologram (sometimes referred to as rainbow or Benton’s hologram) so that it could be used as an art medium was developed by him, and for which he was granted a patent in 1998.
Remind me, Art competitions – for those who need to prove themselves to themselves, forgetting the new has no competitors 500mm x 500mm Reflective hologram & mixed media
Remind me, being Italian is not getting tangled in the spaghetti, the source, the source! 1000mm x 420mm Gold, reflective hologram on synthetic paper
Remind me, that was then theis is now Remind me, Infinity – 8 letters – curious? 995mm x 420mm Gold, reflective hologram & mixed media
Remind me, why I create works akin to music – so will you dance? 1000mm x 420mm Reflective hologram & mixed media
Remind me, there are no rules in art – only perception Remind me, Fred Williams landscapes are alway under my feet 500mm x 500mm Reflective hologram & mixed media
Remind me, there are no rules in art – only perception Remind me, Fred Williams landscapes are alway under my feet 500mm x 500mm Reflective hologram & mixed media