Avila Virtual Installation

 

Multimedia Interactive Art

by Pedro Morales, Caracas. Venezuela

 

 

Avila Virtual Installation

 

 

 

 

Presentation

The work that Pedro Morales has developed up to this date, has had a labyrinthine character from the beginning. The labyrinth, metaphor of the fissures of memory, is developed to give new meaning to the act of painting and to deliver its emulation. Nature is fractionated and poured to formulas, so that the spectator’s vision penetrates physically inside a group of mathematical expressions, which in turn possess the pictorial sense that the artist has wanted to provide his work, above all.

 

The digital means and their perceptive logic take Morales to substantiate the principle of the algorithmic repetition present in fractal geometry. His circuit of interest moves then from the house and the popular mythologies to add the landscape and the still life. The search for Nature’s hidden volumes opens the artist’s field of vision, who from then on adopts virtual reality (estereograms, CD ROM, Internet, Digital videotapes) with the purpose of making an interactive and participative work of art that grants every spectator with a personal vision in another dimension.

In the last few years, Pedro Morales’ work registers within a telematic scope, based on the technological mediation in the language of the visual arts to formulate a communicational model. It is thus how the spectator is made part of the work and creator of his own version of it .

 
Mount Avila, in the northern side of Caracas, serves as a natural barrier to the city and its isolation from the Caribbean sea. It has been for centuries the inspiring source for countless of artists, both Venezuelan and foreign. It has also guaranteed the environmental well being of the Caraqueño, the city dweller. With eighty five thousand hectares of varied flora, fauna and water courses, it conforms the most perfect ecological system, on which the same life of the city depends on. Pedro Morales takes Mount Avila and transform it into Avila Virtual, a Multimedia Interactive Art Installation.