IF YOU EVER find yourself marvelling over a work of Cristiano Pintaldi close up in an art gallery, chances are, you’d be asked by a curator to take a few steps back. Not because you have landed yourself in trouble. What seems like hundreds of red, green and blue dots randomly strung together in a modular pattern suddenly appears to be a patch of white, at a distance. The top corners of the painting dissipate into a dark hue of green as you inch further backwards. Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you; these mind-boggling, optical illusion paintings are the works of a master of hand pixelated art pieces.
Pintaldi’s paintings might look naturalistic, but they’re far from it when you discover that each of his works comprises thousands of one-square centimetre pixels in only three colours: red, blue and green. But a mere three-colourway approach belies the backbreaking technique Pintaldi adopts in his craft, which draws similarities from the process of creating original television images.
This story is from the October 2021 edition of Robb Report Singapore.
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