38‰
38‰ is a duo by Italian artists Mattia Cuttini and Luca Donno.
Cuttini's interdisciplinary practice combines printmaking, graphic design, blockchain technology and AI; Donno is a generative and minimalist artist with a background in computer science.
As a duo, they embrace nature's laws as well as its randomness, exploring the chromatic and geometric spectrum through generative processes.
Their individual works have been exhibited in Los Angeles, Milan, New York, Paris, Turin, across major crypto art galleries and the metaverse.
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"In their second project released as 38‰, Italian artists Mattia Cuttini and Luca Donno leverage both common and distant traits of their practices to investigate the intersection of the chromatic spectrum and the geometric one, transposing fractals and hues found in nature into the digital realm.
Created in response to the theme of Not Only RGB while drawing inspiration from one of Cuttini’s older works, 38‰’ s series ColorSeeds is an ongoing exploration of the relationship between symmetry and randomness, between subtractive and additive colour synthesis, blank voids and overlapping refractions. An interplay between the reassuring laws of balance and the disruptive force of chance, the works challenge the viewer to find a rule to decode the composition, which is never to be fully grasped.
Resembling the spectacle viewed through a shattered kaleidoscope or a prism, ColorSeeds is also the reconnaissance of a visual vertigo, a journey from microcosm to macrocosm in the blink of an eye. The series bears witness to Cuttini’s knowledge of printing techniques and colour theory, his optical experiments and analog glitches, and Donno’s passion for the laws of nature and his background in computer science and coding." (Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi, curators)
ColorSeeds #46
2022
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"In their second project released as 38‰, Italian artists Mattia Cuttini and Luca Donno leverage both common and distant traits of their practices to investigate the intersection of the chromatic spectrum and the geometric one, transposing fractals and hues found in nature into the digital realm.
Created in response to the theme of Not Only RGB while drawing inspiration from one of Cuttini’s older works, 38‰’ s series ColorSeeds is an ongoing exploration of the relationship between symmetry and randomness, between subtractive and additive colour synthesis, blank voids and overlapping refractions. An interplay between the reassuring laws of balance and the disruptive force of chance, the works challenge the viewer to find a rule to decode the composition, which is never to be fully grasped.
Resembling the spectacle viewed through a shattered kaleidoscope or a prism, ColorSeeds is also the reconnaissance of a visual vertigo, a journey from microcosm to macrocosm in the blink of an eye. The series bears witness to Cuttini’s knowledge of printing techniques and colour theory, his optical experiments and analog glitches, and Donno’s passion for the laws of nature and his background in computer science and coding." (Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi, curators)
ColorSeeds #81
2022
Still
"In their second project released as 38‰, Italian artists Mattia Cuttini and Luca Donno leverage both common and distant traits of their practices to investigate the intersection of the chromatic spectrum and the geometric one, transposing fractals and hues found in nature into the digital realm.
Created in response to the theme of Not Only RGB while drawing inspiration from one of Cuttini’s older works, 38‰’ s series ColorSeeds is an ongoing exploration of the relationship between symmetry and randomness, between subtractive and additive colour synthesis, blank voids and overlapping refractions. An interplay between the reassuring laws of balance and the disruptive force of chance, the works challenge the viewer to find a rule to decode the composition, which is never to be fully grasped.
Resembling the spectacle viewed through a shattered kaleidoscope or a prism, ColorSeeds is also the reconnaissance of a visual vertigo, a journey from microcosm to macrocosm in the blink of an eye. The series bears witness to Cuttini’s knowledge of printing techniques and colour theory, his optical experiments and analog glitches, and Donno’s passion for the laws of nature and his background in computer science and coding." (Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi, curators)
ColorSeeds #55
2022
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Artist Talk: 38‰
23/11/22
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Special artist talk with 38‰ (Mattia Cuttini and Luca Donno) about “Not Only RGB”, a group show curated by Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi about the transposition of colour from the natural world into the realm of the digital.
Opening of the exhibition "Not Only RGB"
15/10/22
Online
Opening event of “Not Only RGB”, a group show curated by Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi featuring works created by Kevin Abosch, Matt Kane, 38‰ (Mattia Cuttini and Luca Donno), Sarah Meyohas and Mathieu Merlet-Briand.
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Not Only RGB is a group show curated by Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi. Supported by Decentraland DAO, Not Only RGB features works created by Kevin Abosch, Matt Kane, 38‰ (Mattia Cuttini and Luca Donno), Sarah Meyohas and Mathieu Merlet-Briand.
“Colours are a fundamental facet of how we perceive the outside world. Governed by the invisible laws of colour theory, they influence our emotional relationships to nature, from celestial bodies to distant horizons. But what happens when we try to translate these naturally occurring palettes to a man-made digital environment? Is it still possible to engineer the same complexity of feeling? Can they be used as tools to probe more deeply into the laws of nature?
Not Only RGB is meant to explore the transposition of colour from the natural world into the realm of the digital, using digital landscapes to investigate the fundamental laws that govern our emotional and physical relationships to colour.
From our own subjective perceptions to the external world around us, this exhibition is a journey from microcosm to macrocosm through colour in digital realms."
(Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi, curators)