By Denise Deason
WERRIBEE artist Michelina Di Mauro believes her digital paintings, using computer technology, could become an art form of the future.
“Computers have been around for many years, but this form of art is still new and fresh,” she said.
“It’s been a challenge for me because my background is in traditional art, but it will be exciting to see where this leads.”
An exhibition of Ms Di Mauro’s work opens in Gallery 2 at the Trocadero Artspace in Footscray next Saturday and runs until 1 September.
About 10 works will be on display, but the main attraction will no doubt be Dissolving The Mystery of No 779.
This number is the one assigned by the Louvre Gallery in Paris to perhaps the most recognisable painting in history, the Mona Lisa.
Ms Di Mauro’s treatment of the work has resulted in a most unusual piece.
A former graphic artist and art director in textile design, and an exhibiting artist since the mid-1990s, she has tried not to confine herself to a single medium or material.
In search of new means of artistic expression compatible with contemporary values, the 40-year-old mother of two girls went on to study art and computers.
She recently completed a BA in Computer Mediated Art at Victoria University.
Ms Di Mauro said her approach centred on the artistic tool and the pixilated form.
“A variety of unusual works are produced, which are stylistic in expression,” she said.
“The process of experimentation deliberately exaggerates and exposes digital technology and its ideas of endlessness.”
