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Caraibi: Varnish Art Studio’s Work is a Fine Example of Robot Art
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Varnish Art Studio donated Caraibi, a work created with the Robot Art technology, for the auction organised by EOS Mktg&Communication on its tenth anniversary.
The auction organised by EOS Mktg&Communication on its tenth anniversary.
EOS Mktg&Communication celebrated its ten years of activity with the
works of Varnish (Galliate, Novara, Italy), a company with forty years of
event “Art in Surfaces”, combining art, nature, and industry at the Rossini
experience in the industrial coating sector, especially for the automotive
Art Site (Briosco, Italy). During the evening, a charity auction was held: the
and plastic fields. With Varnish Art Studio, the firm aims at exploring the
proceeds were donated to the Municipality of Monza for the restoration
potential of robotics in the artistic field.
of the epigraphs of the War Memorial monument installed in Trento e Trieste square. All works sold at the auction highlighted the link between
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art and surfaces, which was the leitmotif of the whole event organised by the Cesano Maderno-based company. One of them was Caraibi, a couple of paintings made by Varnish Art Studio by using robots that are normally employed in industrial coating applications. The two 80x80 cm canvases were made in 2003 as a part of the Diva collection. Both the colour and B&W versions depict the face of a Creole woman. Their processing method, of course, is their most surprising aspects, as they were made by a robot normally employed for coating plastic parts, using tempera on canvas. Robot Art is the most recent technique developed to use robots to create paintings on canvas and it proves that everyday life is now influenced by robotics in all its aspects. Robotics, art, and culture are inextricably linked by brilliant innovative products, exactly like the ones created by Varnish Art Studio. Varnish Art Studio is the branch devoted to the production of artistic
Caraibi, the couple of paintings made by Varnish Art Studio and donated for the auction organised by EOS Mktg&Communication.
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