my definition:
Digigravure,n.: Bidimensional art work in limited edition, numbered and signed by the artist, printed from digital matrix and resultant of manipulation of image created by the author through graphic softwares.
my history in digigravures:
In 1998, when I started creating my Digigravures, I did it in a very empirical and intuitive way. I believe that is the most sincere method to create, besides being it the most suitable for the artist’s work.
The term Digigravure, described above, was a result of the following: “Digi” due to the use of digital ways to transform images and being also digital the original to be printed. “Gravure” because it’s a work edited in a limited edition, from a matrix and being each unit separately signed and numbered.
In spite of having created in 1998 this denomination for my digital art work, I discovered after sometime, surfing in web, that this term was being used by other persons to define works technically similar to mine. I am still not sure of the moment in which the expression started to be generally used, and if it was or not me the first one using it. I let History undertake, or not, the discovering.
Beside the drawings, I always tried to express myself through any artistic field on my reach. I can say I was born in love with Beauty, Aesthetics, Colors and Forms. At some moment I fallen in love with Photography, and at other, with countless digital processes of image manipulation and creation. I had initial notions of photography at CEFET-PR (Federal Center of Technological Education of Parana-Brazil) and at UFPR (Federal University of Parana-Brazil). Curiosity and necessity taught me to utilize programs such as Photoshop, Corel, Paint, Flash, etc.
Someone could consider my first Digigravure a Digital Painting, because I did it straightly in the computer, without manual starting point (draw in pencil, for example), utilizing only software tools. I liked the “fun” and started digitizing my manual drawings and collages, transforming those images through graphic softwares. Soon the photo entered in the circle and digital photography closed the siege. This way I join several techniques to create my art without restricting my imagination to the possibilities of a limited tool.
At present my creation process includes a series of stages and several artistic categories to give rise to a single Digigravure: I do a drawing, a collage, or create an installation, than I photograph and manipulate it digitally.
After a certain time of much experimentation, my relation with filters and digital tools started to flow naturally. There are times in which I drive them through ideas more or less defined to reach an imagined result, a desired aesthetics. But there are times in which I am satisfied with the beauty reached at “random”, very often with few resources, and then I let the work seduce for its simplicity and naturalness. I believe the greatest conquest is there: the creator’s vision, the fantasy, the imagination, which one cannot learn, not even with teachers nor in courses, and only an artist reaches, independently of techniques and background.
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Karin Schwarz: January, 2005 |
