Budano Lino
1952, Italien
Video-Skulptur-Künstler, Maler, Chirurg
«...Meine Visionen sind synthetische Wirklichkeiten, Interpretationen, Mystifikationen ... manipulierte Codes, Magnetresonanzen, transgenetische Nahrung, zentrifugierte Fingerabdrücke, die binäre Sprache mit ihrer einprägsamen Grafik, die enthüllte DNA... wurde das Künstliche natürlich oder umgekehrt?»
The Video-screen-sculptures conceived by Lino Budano
“The sound of the skin falling in my journeys through subcutaneous media was haunting, something was different, microscopic changes in homeostasis had occurred, all I could do was to classify them.” Sparse notes, reflections which might have been made in a notebook by an unknown scientist-anthropologist. This is the keystone for understanding the most recent output from this artist who has made experimenting with - and the use of - multimedia his artform. Budano’s pieces are video-sculptures, or rather video-screen-sculptures as their inventor prefers to call them.
At the base there is a sort of high relief, with folds and drapery, reminiscent of human anatomy but also hypothetical curtains, seeming to burst open to reveal other, deeper forms. Onto these panels Budano projects computer-processed images of himself accompanied by sounds and contemporary music. The result of this studio and computer work is an extremely involving artistic composition, full of meaning, where the particular scenography is always combined with a clear background discourse which finds its revelation, in a particular way, in the video which traverses and probes the sculpture, continually giving it new and different cyphers. The analysis which Budano makes of the organism starts off from the view of a kind of organic fabric which transforms into a piece of high technology.
It is we who transform ourselves day after day without recognising it. Psychologically we are unaware of the changes which take place in us, but the risk is that of transforming ourselves into automatons where the decadence of the flesh gives way to hypertechnology. A pessimistic view of existence, which in any case Budano now overturns with a new series of works: the biochip black sculptures, where the subject is no longer man, but machine. In the latest works by Budano it is the machine which undergoes the metamorphosis in order to transform itself into something human. The computer chip, which little by little develops organic tissue, becoming a thinking machine, ever closer to man. It is a new world, making one think, an occasion for reflecting on that which we really are. The lights of the video extinguish, the silence remains, and in the silence the sign of the artist persists through his works which, like Vestal virgins, seem to dance in space and time.
Carlo Francou, Director of the Museo scienze Naturali, Piacenza, Italy
