Transient - Impermanent Paintings

In this installation, the programme simultaneously produces sound and images, creating synesthetic alliterations that are perfectly synchronised, but far removed from the action of human manipulation, freeing music and painting from hand gestures. The artist makes use of the non-human virtuosity that is part of the possibilities offered by technology. Ultimately, the Transient experience aims to connect the legacy of classical music and painting traditions with the assumption of new soundscapes and visual polyphonies.

Quayola uses technology as a lens to explore the tensions and balances between seemingly opposing forces: the real and the artificial, the figurative and the abstract, the old and the new. He constructs immersive installations in which he reinterprets canonical imagery through contemporary technology. Quayola’s body of work derives entirely from custom software, but also includes audiovisual performances, immersive video installations, sculpture and works on paper.

The Italian artist has given presentations and held exhibitions at many prestigious institutions all over the world, such as the V&A Museum in London, the Park Avenue Armory in New York, the National Art Center in Tokyo, the UCCA in Beijing, the How Art Museum in Shanghai, the SeMA in Seoul, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Sónar Festival in Barcelona and the Sundance Film Festival.

He is a regular collaborator on music projects, working alongside composers, orchestras and musicians such as the London Contemporary Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Bordeaux, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Vanessa Wagner, Jamie XX, Mira Calix, Plaid and Tale Of Us. In 2013 Quayola was awarded the Golden Nica by the prestigious Austrian leading-edge institution Ars Electronica.