Gianfranco Pulitano

Biography

The artist is from the generation grown in front
of the TV: since the infanthood, he was fed with
cartoons, advertising, science-fiction movies. As
a small NERD from the Eighties, his interests
were early turned toward technological
knowledge (the artificial brain myth) rather than
soccer game and, if games passionate him at all,
were those he found, and collected, within the
Kinder Surprise eggs. Soon later, the adolescent
fell in love with all sorts of metropolitan culture:street art, break dance and Hip Hop music,
especially the first electronically sampled sound
research. Finally, he focused on the artistic
shapes of urban installations and obsessively
investigated the iconic language of street signals,thus taking world as a baseline to allude to, and to spill over into, the world, its visions, its deliriums, its truths. Though never oblivious of the early love for science and technologies, this research path allows for a much cherished and purposefully revealing linkage of the art work with a social accent. Inspired by a playful taste, Pulitano nevertheless conveys thoughtful remarks and a proper philosophy of life about the salient topics of his generations material and symbolic environment. Like the creative mixes of a visual DJ of sorts, his recycled art works bring to the fullest expression the inexhaustible semantic richness inherent in the human experience.