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{"ops":[{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"https://pauldavidredfern.it"},{"insert":"\n\n\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"2024"},{"insert":"\nSERGIO CHIERICI\n"},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Virtualcar.it"},{"insert":"\nPaul David Redfern:"},{"attributes":{"underline":true},"insert":" Innovator of Digital Motoring Art"},{"insert":"\nSince its inception 20 years ago, Virtualcar.it has focused on motoring art, once reserved for a select few, but now increasingly popular internationally. We are therefore pleased to resume our series dedicated to motoring art, presenting the works of Paul David Redfern, an artist who has made significant contributions to the fields of motoring art and digital photography. Born in 1958 in Leominster, Massachusetts, Redfern spent over a decade (1975–1986) in the graphic design and painting industry before turning to digital photography in the 1990s. In 1991, he organized an art exhibition in Gorizia, sponsored by the Municipality, which marked the beginning of his commitment to promoting regional art. However, it was in 1994 that he took a crucial step in his career, creating Photomorphoses, an innovative series of computer-generated photographic images that transformed traditional photography into digital art.\nThis technique, cutting-edge for the time, combines photography and computer graphics to create works that transcend the boundaries of the two disciplines. The resulting images are visual metamorphoses that maintain a connection to the real world while exploring new aesthetic and conceptual dimensions. Redfern's work is characterized by a balance between color and texture, and uses historic vehicles in the foreground, combined with backgrounds, graphics, and text that evoke a vintage, industrial atmosphere, with rust, workshops, oil, and gasoline, transporting the viewer to a world where mechanics and art merge. There are also references to pop art, even as the combination of photography and digital graphics acts as a barrier between reality and imagination, like visions of the past through a contemporary lens.\nRedfern's work has received national and international recognition, with exhibitions and publications acknowledging its artistic value. In 1996, his first Photomorfosi were published in the national magazine \"Progresso Fotografico,\" and in 1997 he gave a lecture on the subject at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. His reputation further grew with the solo exhibition \"Digital Photomorfosi – Metamorfosi della fotografia tradizionale\" (Digital Photomorphosis – Metamorphosis of Traditional Photography), dedicated to him by AGFA Italia in 1999. His works are now held in prestigious public and private collections, including the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Rijeka and the MOCA Museum in New York, cementing his status as a pioneer in digital art.\nTranslated by Google\n"}]}