Massimo Cremagnani
aka Capitolouno — Digital Artist
Massimo Cremagnani — aka Capitolouno — graduated with honors from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in 1999, with a thesis on the ethics and aesthetics of digital art titled “Digital Art, Chapter One”: in academia it was the first on the subject and the first on an interactive multimedia format.
"I took color in its most rigid and objective form and made the computer give it life, shape and movement. I gave colors the freedom to express themselves independently, as single hues and as great collaborative communities."
As early as 1998 he presented his first digital work, Homo Sapiens Marsupialis, at the Salon I exhibition at Palazzo della Permanente in Milan, while assisting computer graphics and digital photography courses at the Academy, before going on to teach at the Santa Giulia Academy in Brescia. That same year he began a journalism career spanning over a decade, writing the column “Computerarte?” for CGP magazine and experimenting first-hand with every technology for digital imaging.
His research found new synergies between art, graphics and communication: the “non-linear creative method”, the Laserigraphy technique, the Elite PrinTest perceptual print-analysis system, up to publishing the book “Figurative Digital Art Enhanced Manifesto” and, later, conceiving the first museum dedicated to digital printing and the book “Digital Printing, Chapter One”.
Ch'Art Manifesto
Ink blots that are not blots.
Like clouds, Ch'Art awakens visual symbolism through the charm of chance and personal interpretation.
Ch'Art is abstraction to be reconstructed, mosaic memories pushed beyond the logic of the individual tile to live outside the grid, far from the cold geometry that created and exploited them for so long.
Ch'Art is a swarm of declaredly pure colors that draw close with discretion: they play on the same team without ever touching, they push themselves with thought, influencing one another through their mere presence.
Looking at a Ch'Art, or simply being near one, you glimpse an implicit, distinctly unnatural dynamic that fills the space, creating illusions. Imaginary hues float in a gentle swirl, searching for memories and fantasies.
Because in a Ch'Art you can see an object, a person, an animal. You can sense a symphony, a taste or a feeling. Otherwise, you can follow its rhythm and let it play in the background, without asking how or why.
