LandEscape Art Review // Special Issue | Page 190

LandE scape

Raúl Moyado
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Art challenges technology and technology challenges art to produce new aesthetic experiences and to extend visual languages . I do not think that neither one suppress the other altogether because they feed each other . As for digital painting , I see it as a new medium made to be seen through a screen ; There ´ s no need to transfer a digital product to a printed media . Is it necessary to print a video ? My proposal with painting in virtual reality is to conceive new forms of contemplation directly related to the medium in which it is created .
Memory is the starting point to fill a space with meaning ; for human perception the landscape sustains traces of the past and through it collective memories are reconstructed .
These memories evoke feelings and states of mind and it is through my painting that I transform fractions of reality lost in time , manipulate them , and repaint them as the mind does often with our memories .
As a result , the landscape is transformed into a state of