Statement
/ Statement
MORE
THAN REAL
Kantfish’s work uncovers layers of reality that usually slip past the first glance, opening new ways of reading the familiar and expanding its meaning. By making these hidden dimensions visible, his work activates a deeper understanding of nature and of our own condition, inviting viewers to question the given, move beyond perceptual and conceptual limits, and engage with a broader, more complex reality, one less constrained by habitual frameworks of interpretation.
Rooted in photography, Kantfish applies a precise, almost surgical gaze to natural, urban, and human landscapes, transforming them into abstract spaces that emerge through what could be called an inner or soulful eye.
MY ARTWORKS EXPLORE LAYERS OF REALITY THAT CAN TAKE US BEYOND WHAT WE RECOGNIZE AS REAL.
MORE THAN REAL.
THINKING ART
I observe reality by questioning everything. I reconsider the importance of details, our relationship with nature, and human behavior within its environments. I believe in the power of art to move us, provoke reflection, and alter our perception of what we accept as real.
In my immersion in reality and everyday life, I look for connections that are not always visible at first glance, relationships between the individual and the universal, between perception, experience, and what we understand as real.
My artworks, created with absolute freedom, emerge from this search and from a process that combines photographic observation with my own digital techniques, incorporating, in some cases, new technologies and artificial intelligence.
Kantfish’s collection brings together artworks born from documentary studies, reportage, lived experiences, discoveries, and anthropological, social, and nature related interests. They are journeys, explorations, and interpretations that question our perception of life and reality.
They reveal everyday details, unreal situations, and sublime moments, composing a mosaic of moods, emotions, and observations as they were perceived.
Movimiento Linear de Salida, 2013
The real landscape in my images often transforms into an abstraction where the object becomes the subject and the photographic gaze becomes expression.
Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not superior, of art.
UNCERTAINTY AS THE TRUTH
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle establishes a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain physical properties can be known simultaneously.
ROCKET SHIP, 2022
Guinovart Art Gallery
Avalanche Summit, Barcelona
3 × 3 m · NFT
Beyond physics, this idea raises a question for me: to what extent can a single perspective contain reality?
The possibility of discovering another dimension, another point of view, or new ways of living always remains open.
The frontiers of contemporary physics challenge some of our certainties and open new questions about reality. Uncertainty does not prevent the search for truth. It can be part of it.
“After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.”
Images, films, books, and other forms of creation are vehicles for transmitting something of what has been observed, studied, and lived.
Techniques change. What matters is what moves through the artwork.
IVORY, 2018
Photography and Hand Digital Painting
Fine Art Print on Cotton Paper, Mounted on Aluminum Dibond
148 × 62 cm, Edition of 2 + 1 A.P.
90 × 40 cm, Edition of 3 + 1 A.P.
Understanding and Evolving
I am Italian, and I cannot separate my understanding of art from the humanist tradition born and developed in Italy during the Renaissance. “The goal of maximizing human flourishing, life, health, happiness, freedom, knowledge, love, and richness of experience, may be called humanism,” writes psychologist Steven Pinker in Enlightenment Now.
As an author, I believe in the Renaissance idea of a broad and transversal vision of culture. An active culture. I believe in Thinking Art. Change Maker. My vision is humanist and holistic, in the sense of ὅλος, the whole, because reality is complex and no single discipline, language, or perspective is enough to understand it.
I am the reflection of what I learned under the sun, immersed in the Ionian Sea accompanied by the song of Ulysses’ sirens, among the columns of the amphitheatres of Magna Graecia, on trains rushing north, under the sky of Madrid, in the intense colours of literature, and even in the Pirandellian games of Sicily.
I formed my knowledge by moving through different personal, cultural, and educational contexts.
In every situation, I immerse myself and emerge again. With empathy, understanding, and respect, I approach and wait patiently, in a maieutic way, for the artwork to be born.
I believe in the sea of painter Ran Ortner. In the colours of Franco Fontana. In the cuts of Lucio Fontana. In the worlds of Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, and Joan Miró. In David Lynch’s exploration of the unified field, which is consciousness. From reality seen through the ironic perspective of Charles Bukowski, to the different narratives of Ryszard Kapuściński, Sergei Dovlatov, and Guy de Maupassant. I believe in the pure portraits of Cristina García Rodero and Alberto García-Alix. I believe in the static moments filled with stories of Josef Koudelka. In the constructed moments of Jan Saudek, the whites of Richard Avedon, the blurs of Bernard Plossu. I look to the aesthetics of urban artists such as Banksy and Ai Weiwei, the audacity of Nobuyoshi Araki, the alternative and innovative forms of Art Spiegelman, and the sense of time in Andrei Tarkovsky.
For me, art is a form of expression through which to understand and evolve. To celebrate the fact that I am alive. To connect the dots, weave stories, inspire, and learn to interpret different perspectives. And share them. To avoid losing ourselves in useless induced beliefs.
Reality does not exist without an observer. Observing closely allows us to take the first step to change things.