How Quantum Art was Born
by Roberto Denti
When I wrote the Manifesto of Quantum Art in 2008, it was the culmination of a long journey that began in the 1970s. I took up my concepts of Photography and Substantial Art from 1977 in which I wrote "... the aesthetic negation of the object will no longer bind the artist to a certain reality, it will not condition him in the search for the beautiful object for its own sake, but will free him completely from the realist conception, giving him the opportunity to space, to build himself a new, different world and to express oneself as never before: no longer reflecting reality, photographic art, although starting from it and forming part of it, forms the world and changes it. ".
These words are part of the manifesto "Substantial photography", where I felt the need to express, through the camera, the substance of human relationships and not appearance; I rejected the photographic object as the observer sees it, as I was critical of the world, which I defined as "CATEGORY STRUCTURES". All these concepts were forerunners of QUANTUM ART, which I discovered and defined in April 2008.
The choice of the name Quantum Art derives from the cognitive revolution that the new physics has brought into modern science, with a conception of the sub-atomic world quite different from Cartesian and Newtonian mechanistic physics.