Aldo Tolino is an Austrian artist who attended the University for Applied Arts where he received a PhD after focusing his research on art, games and media theory. Although he is known for his incredible artwork, he is also a philosopher; he is currently working on a book which contains some of the techniques he has explored before such as sculptures, paper folding and textures.
Aldo is best known for using digital art to create disproportioned portraits, most commonly using a person and creating a distorted sculpture of their face. He does this by printing a portrait photograph and folds it repeatedly, taking it apart and then folding it all over again in order to get the piece he had envisioned, then photographing the end result.
The piece shown above is called “Faust als Marionettentheater” a piece based on the Salzburg Marionette Theatre which was originally founded in 1913 by Professor Anton Aicher. On his website there is a quote by Gretel Aicher, where she talks about her passion for marionettes, “What then is the fascination of a life with marionettes? Is it the pleasure of performing? The appeal of mastering an ‘instrument’ to the point of virtousity?” she later said “the transformation of one’s self?” which makes me believe this piece is based around finding your own identity.
Portraits aren’t where his pieces end, he does landscape pieces where he does a similar thing with the portraits but it has pictures of lakes and mountains compacted into one piece.
This piece is called “Mother” which is a motherboard which is generally found in microcomputers. This piece shows his knowledge on this topic and being able to transform it into a work of art.
Personally, I like a lot of his pieces such as the one above. It is abstract and quite easy on the eye compared to some artist who do a similar theme, they have big, bold colours that can sometimes really clash. His pieces have so much depth to them as they might seem like a distorted portrait but later if you read, they have such fascinating meanings.
stevenson.snaps 