Study for a portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat

'I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.'

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Why a pixelated digital portrait? Because the pixel is the minimum conventional unit of the surface of the digital image. At the same time, it is the unit of measurement of the superficiality and fragmentation of the visual culture of Homo Digitalis.

In my works the pixels gain weight, volume, physicality, three-dimensionality, operating a fragmentation, a simplification, a trivialization of the subjects of the works.