Mimmo  Scognamiglio  Artecontemporanea is glad to present Happy  Accidents,  anew  solo  show  by  Argentinian  artist Daniel González. The work of the multidisciplinary artist gravitates around the relationship between digital and natural reality, with the aim of changing point of view and shifting personal limits. The selected works, which aim to celebrate a symbolic rebirth, demand the viewers to question reality as they know it, to see what’s beneath.

The works on display are conceived as collages, with images selected from social media, GIF, cinema special effects and videogames,  mixed  with  personal  stills  derived  directly  from  the  artist’s  experience  and  natural  reality.  In  this  way,  a trivial  stain  on  the  floor,  if  transferred  on  a  canvas  becomes  a  set  onto  which  it’s  possible  to  paint  different  elements: optical  patterns,  designer  lamps,  childish  sketches,  emojis,  ancient  masks  and  ritual  objects,  movie  frames,  tattoos, Las Bardas (typical Mexican murals promoting local bands), pictures shot on iPhone...

These images behave like a Rube Goldberg machine, consisting of a series of simple unrelated devices that, once started, trigger other components’ reaction, intentionally designed to perform simple tasks in an indirect and overly complicated way. Seemingly, the different techniques and subjects of the paintings, are related to their own medium, being it natural or digital. For example, the act of erasing a canvas turns into an expression of intentionality and imposition of the action, which  overlaps  the  primary  action.  By  doing  this,  it  generates  a  visual  tension  that  demands  the  viewers’  complicity, which is mandatory to let them solve the picture.  

The works in Happy Accidents are therefore an invitation to enter the unknown, pushing us towards new experiences that allow to extend one’s own perceptual field. They act like a driving force that turns everything into something else, that let us  jump  into  fantastic  places  where  the  impossible  becomes  possible.  Where  flaws  are  completely  accepted  in  favor  of lightness,  in  a  fully  personal  space/time  dimension,  and  past  and  future  run  like  trains  on  the  same  railway  in  a  dilated time.

Happy Accidents

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