Something Alien…

Photographs: Beatrice Pediconi
Installation photographs by Dario Lasagni
Text: Lyle Rexer
Publisher: Danilo Montanari Editore
120 pages
With illustrations throughout
Year: 2016
Price: $65
Softbound, 13 x 11 in

Rome-born and New York-based artist Pediconi has masterfully translated scientific studies and observations into meditative painting recorded by photography and video.  Her works convey a sense of mystery and otherworldly connection, transporting viewers into a serene, alien, and yet strangely familiar universe.  Pediconi’s strengths lie in her ability to weave together chemistry, physics, mathematics, music, photography, video, and installation into her own unique and transformative vision.  

Alien, uses oil paint in both still images and a hypnotizing video.  For the nine Alien artist books, Pediconi began by shooting 8x10 Polaroid images of her oil paintings on water in March 2015.  The first book consists of two images representing the union of two elements to create life.  Each book increases by one image per month, finishing in November with ten images (one full pack of Polaroid film).  The resulting images resemble aerial landscapes that seem familiar but make the viewer feel like a visiting foreigner.  The push and pull of the known and unknown is a defining quality of Pediconi’s work:  a mysteriousness that is also inviting.  

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