Detail: The group exhibition 'Mimesi permanente. Una mostra su simulazione e realismo (Permanent Mimesis - An Exhibition on Realism and Simulation)' brings together thirteen representatives of a new generation of International artists from Europe, the United States and Asia. Displaying photography, painting, sculpture, video and installation works, the show revolves around the particular moment in which images reveal themselves as self-evident constructions and manifest illusions.
Our visual scenery is now significantly shaped by the deep transformations brought about by the new technologies involved in digital image production. On the one hand, we are witnessing the widespread and always-increasing popularity of software and devices that elaborate, edit and share images; on the other hand we seem to have broaden our criteria in the perception of reality. Thus we can relate to digitally created images – as in the case of 3D animation – and despite being aware of their artificial nature we are still capable of identifying ourselves with the illusion they produce.
The exhibition explores the works of a group of contemporary artists who use digital images as their subject, while still recurring to analogical and more "traditional" formats, such as painting, sculpture and drawing. And their practice, rather than a nostalgic approach, actually constitutes an attempt to underline a sort of production paradox, defining a fundamental aspect of art itself: the possibility to clearly show the production process of an illusion and, despite this, to create a sort of unparalleled and effective ambiguity.

Asian Artists: Pratchaya PHINTHONG (ปรัชญา พิณทอง)