The History of the Birth and Creation
of Quantum Art
by Roberto Denti
In those 70s and 80s, my photographic aesthetic was inspired by reality as a historical element, as an increasingly evident contradiction of society and its values.
This led me to theorize a new aesthetic, according to which the object of the photographs should not be important, whether this is visible, or not, but the most important thing is the social message that I wanted to convey as an artist. This is how the very symbolic photographs were born, such as "Man and nature" that recount man's dominion over nature, according to the philosophical conception of Descartes; other series of photographs describe Taylorist-capitalist work, power, everyday objects in a context of social use.
To overcome the purely realistic
aesthetics of photography, I "broke"
the objects, placing the mirrors in
front of the lens, obtaining artistic
results that made me overcome
photographic realism.
Roberto Denti, "Taylorist-capitalist work", 1982