Filippo Panseca - Biodegradabile

Screen print produced at Studio D Milano in 1972 in 100 numbered copies signed by the artist.

Filippo Panseca (Palermo, 1940) founded in 1965 the Temposud Group. In 1968 he moved to Milan, participating in the Quadriennale di Roma, the Triennale di Milano and the Venice Biennale. In 1970 he began Biodegradable Art, exhibiting at Leo Castelli's galleries in New York, at Lara Vincy in Paris, at the Naviglio Gallery in Milan and at the Obelisco Gallery in Rome. In 1975 he attempted to produce works online, to be transmitted simultaneously via satellite to every part of the world. He carried out an unsuccessful experiment in Milan with Pierre Restany at Rank Xerox. On January 17 and 18, 1976 the daily newspaper La Repubblica offered readers, for 150 lire, a work printed in 330,000 copies.

In 1979 in San Francisco he develops and prints the first computer-generated images. In Milan, in 1980, with a monochrome computer, a video camera and a digitizer, he processes a series of images that, when printed, are presented at the Naviglio Art Gallery in Milan. Subsequently he creates a four-color computer and continues the research on photodegradable digital images presented on video at the Venice Biennale. In 1981 he installed a photodegradable Ephemeral Victory on the hand of Canova's Napoleon in the Courtyard of the Brera Academy, where he had taught since 1978. He currently lives on the island of Pantelleria, where he runs MediArtUniversity.