Patrizia Pio was born in Rome in 1959. 1983 she received a diploma in Decoration from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. Since 1980 she has been working in print graphics both traditional and computerized. Since 1984 she has been working as Computer Graphics Artist. Member of TRACCE engravers association since 1984. Numerous artistic experiments in painting, graphics and computer graphics. 1990 included m SIGGRAPH Art Show, Dallas, Texas.

'Memorie' was created with the 2D software 'Creator 2.3'. The work has been made as the representation of my expressive ideas directly on a graphic tablet. I used a confluence of signs, shades, veils and embosses as a basis, adding more and more layers until various layered surfaces emerged. In this sense, the computer was used for its typical functions such as embossing, masking, shading, as well as for searching for that artistic balance with a degree of ease and speed that cannot be compared to other artistic techniques.

With this work I wanted to express something deep, persistant, related to the past and consisting of layers in which something might be added or happen or not at all. I have used the same approach in painting and in traditional graphics, and what fascinates me after all these years is that these techniques blend into each other and are merged into something that I consider my cultural luggage.

Computer graphics do have a great area of research ahead them, and maybe this is the extra stimulus the contemporary artist finds in this sector of art, the possibility of overcoming the limits of space imposed upon us by the traditional techniques. Maybe the most interesting matter is that after seven years of work, I notice that the use of the computer is conditioning my way of being an artist; I have deeply internalized its characteristics, its functions, what you can do and what you can't, and all of that is fused with that I am, with my intellectual and artistic positions.

Technical Background

HW: Silicon Graphics
SW: Creator 2.3