Horti Lamiani - Bettivo` Gallery
Via Giolitti, 163
Rome - Italy

Richard Journo | Born in Tripoli, Libya in 1958 to an Italian family, Richard Journo has dedicated much of the last 20 years to collective arts, producing music projects, directing documentaries and short films. Using this broad spectrum of experience, he has developed a subjective style which is illustrated in his work - installations, videos and large format digital arts.
Richard's work tackles issues concerning serialisation, uniformity, codification as they unfold in our technological world as opposed to freedom and individuality. The artist explores the tension between these two poles through digital art, not only because IT is the medium that almost everybody in our post-industrial society uses in the course of their normal life, but also because it allows a self referential and paradoxical discourse. Richard Journo investigates the ethics of codification from encrypted codes to behaviour codes, many of his works picture a colour barcode seen as the symbol of serialisation applied to consumerism just as the hammer and sickle was the emblem of the communist totalitarian regime.

The exhibition is curated by Simona Cresci and Domenico Giglio