FERNANDO HOCEVAR, ARGENTINA
Artists Statement
Without doubts the XX century has been prodigal in advances and discoveries that have modified the manÕs environment and its possibilities. The revolutionary environment of the images has not escaped to this reality and a new world is presented to explore and to discover.
The approach to the digital processes and the possibility of making art with them, after a long period enjoying the fragancy to the oil and the turpentine, it was almost at first sight love. The encounter was joyful, the seduction full with passions and the result a genuine interest for this totally new and blinding aesthetic universe. A rediscovery process and reinvencion in a fascinating world whose limits can only be those of the imagination.
This new creative field will surely generate the debate. Welcome it is. While it happens it millions of colors and textures will be hoping somebody changes them and it combines them to an unusual rhythm. The secret ÇonlyÈ he resides in being able to them to incorporate the music, the rhythm, the passion and the poetry, task anything simple in this aesthetic and at this time historical challenge of new alternatives. Not to attempt it would be to lose the battle before to begin her and to waste these recent tools of the exciting world in which has played us to live, and mainly, to stop to exercise the wonderful right to the freedom.Ê
Biography
Born in Mendoza, Republic Argentina, in winter of 1944. After the realization of studies in the University of Mendoza, he obtains Architect's title and with it solid aesthetic knowledge that will guide him in his plastic search. His first intents take him to the field of picture, participating in numerous and important competitions, obtaining prizes that stimulate his activity. Nevertheless it, did not satisfy fully, it enters in him the vital necessity of a more direct contact with the matter and the creation of his own landscapes. He begins to elaborate his oils and his beautiful and endless series is born in that moment of ÇLandscapes in the country of the calm.
In 1997 a deep change takes place in his technique. Without abandoning the spirit and beauties of his works he discovers the digital processes to those that it is overturned passionately. At beginning of 1999 and after the work of two year has surprises Mendoza with to singular sample of than 40 works of great format that suggestively denominates it lives ÇLandscapes under the hidden moonÈ and they configures, in opinion of the specialized critic, the most important sample that I lower these processes is carried out in the Rep. Argentina. Recently it has been rewarded with important artistic prizes when obtaining the "Fiorino d'Argento" in XVII PREMIO FIRENZE-EUROPA in the section of Digital Art sponsored by the European Parliament and the Government from FlorenceÐItaly (www.bottega2000.it).
At the beginning of the year 2000 were distinguished with the "Great Prize of Honor", maximum distinction, in the Fourth Digital Creation Awards (Toray), Japan
Work
THE FORT ILUMINATE, 2000
THE HIDDEN MOON, 2000
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