MANOLO: A CREATIVE CODER FROM ARGENTINA

Kate Vass Galerie is excited to introduce Manolo Gamboa Naon and his new artworks !

“Manolo's work feels like it is the result of the entire contents of twentieth-century art and design being put into a blender.  Once chopped down into its most essential geometry, Manolo then lovingly pieces it back together with algorithms and code to produce art that is simultaneously futuristic and nostalgic. His work serves as a welcome (and needed) bridge into digital art and an antidote for those who see the genre as cold, mechanical, and discontinuous with the history of art.” - Jason Bailey ‘Contemporary Generative Art Prodigy’ interview with the artist.

Manolo Gamboa Naon is an Argentinean visual artist and creative coder whose interest focuses mainly on exploring generative visual aesthetics based on plastic experimentation with code.

Manolo Gamboa Naon
cllm, 2020
Medium: processing

His works explore the potential of programming as an expressive language in the framework of generativity and process art. Combining images and video, he explores the possible relationships between chaos and order, organic and artificial, randomness and control.

Manolo approaches the digital surface as a plastic space using the code as artistic materiality, based on the experimentation with basic geometric shapes, lines and colours.

Described as a ‘contemporary generative art prodigy’ by Jason Bailey in the interview which you can find here, Manolo loves to learn and experiment with different languages like Processing, Openframeworks, Unity, vvvv, Puredata and Javascript.

He is obsessed with generativity, he likes programming images in which he works with geometric patterns, textures and overloading.

Manolo Gamboa Naon
mmntt, 2020
Medium: processing

Inspired by artists like Raven Kwok, Ben Fry and Casey Reas, he believes that ‘code transcends language, and to me, that is beautiful.’

Color is also what stands out the most from Manolo’s work and that’s because ‘sometimes I spend more time forming a color palette than programming. My inspiration comes from looking around all the time. I look at a lot of things from design. Instagram, Twitter, all the time searching for references. A movie, an old newspaper. Inspiration comes from many places. In my work, I intend to evoke something - from a time or of a certain quality.’

Kate Vass Galerie is glad to present some Manolo’s artworks at CADAF Online 2020 at the end of June and other selected ones as part of our new upcoming online show in July!

The works are available as unique NFTs on the blockchain and as beautiful unique prints.

Manolo Gamboa Naon
vvttmmnn, 2019
Medium: processing

Manolo Gamboa Naon
test042, 2020
Unique NFT on the blockchain

Manolo Gamboa Naon
OP_021, 2019
Medium: processing

Mantel Blue, 2018
processing
Hahnemühle Photo Rag Fine Art Print
Image 60x60 cm on 70x70cm paper
Unique

In private collection, USA