ALEJANDRO VIGILANTE
Though there was glamour in Andy Warhol’s images of celebrities, there was playfulness in his immortalization of Campbell’s soup cans. Roy Lichtenstein’s comic-strip icons were certainly witty, but his paintings like “Woman with Peanuts” were purely whimsical. Not since Warhol, Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney and James Rosenquist has the art world had a renaissance: until now. Like the fathers of Pop, I am exploring new territory in order to infuse the fine arts with a heightened lightheartedness, glamour and wit.
The i-Art Movement
Mimicking Pop Art’s heroes, I draw from film, television, comic books and advertisements for my humorous repartee, but mine is a new wave of Popism, which has intelligence as the underlying principle rather than visual stimulus without meaning. There is no substrata of society that is immune to my roving eye. Images available upon request.
Just as Pop’s founders were catering to popular tastes, my i-Art Movement, an exploration of Internet minutia, satisfies the most modern soul—those voracious junkies of anything that floats across their computer screens. This soul could not have been imagined by Pop Art’s creators because the internet was just being developed during their time of explosive creativity. It wasn’t until 1969 that the first computer whiz “logged on” to a Stanford Research Institute computer and transferred data from one location to another.
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