Walter Rindone
Tales from the Deep Dark Web
June 3–July 2, 2023

The paradoxical implications of human activities and their impact on the planet. Actions to organize cultural and religious systems and society. Consumerism as the new ritual dimension of man. These are just some of the topics that form the background of the project entitled Tales from the Deep Dark Web, the last chapter of an ongoing series of artworks that began to take place in 2016.

The project consists of the alteration of biblical illustrations by the French artist Paul Gustave Doré, which are implemented with found imagery coming from any sort of informational medium, ranging from printed sources—such as books and magazines—to the internet. The artworks are produced by using an experimental printmaking technique called anastatic printing.

About the artist:

Walter Rindone (born in Caltagirone, Italy) is a visual artist with a background in experimental printmaking techniques. He creates his artworks by the use of solely recycled images, involving image manipulation and image reproduction processes such as collage and anastatic printing. He mastered these techniques as a trainee at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, and in his doctoral studies at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław.

The basis of his work is a reflection on images as carriers of sensory information and their symbolic nature. As well as the role of images on the diffused aestheticization brought by the ever-accelerating systems of society and the implications that follow. Such reflection culminated in an ongoing project entitled The Black Series, consisting of reinterpretations of images from an 1843 edition of the Bible illustrated by the French artist Paul Gustave Doré.