Piece description from the artist
The Oracle series presents three representations of natural landscapes — forest, sea, and desert — each accompanied by a gold-colored QR code granting access to its corresponding audio track.
As the viewer approaches the artwork and activates the audio track via the QR code, they transform into an active participant. The experience transcends the visual realm to become multisensory: “seeing” merges with “listening,” evoking a deep immersion into the landscape portrayed.
Each piece invites the viewer to embark on a unique journey:
__ Forest: The song of birds at dawn evokes the primordial serenity of nature, an invitation to rediscover its ancestral stillness.
__ Sea: The sound of waves, intertwined with the distant cries of seagulls, speaks of freedom and vastness, an open breath stretching toward infinity.
__ Desert: Fragmented human voices, distant and faint, blend with the murmur of traffic. Here, the landscape becomes absence, a silence that whispers: “Was there a city here, before this desert?” It is a melancholic call, an echo of what once was and is no more.
The title Oracle serves as a warning, a voice urging us to reflect on a hypothetical future where nature survives only as a simulacrum, a digital image and sound. It is an urgent call to rethink the relationship between humanity and the environment, to question sustainability, and to act now, before the tangible becomes a memory.
The audio tracks are preserved in a dedicated Google Drive, ideally ensuring their enduring accessibility and maintaining a lasting connection between the artwork and its audience.
The QR code for Oracle .3 links to the following address: https://bit.ly/oracle-3-marcogra.
Created with digital painting techniques.
This is a TurningArt exclusive limited edition print available in editions of 100.
Marco Grà is a visual artist based between Italy and the UK. His work is inspired by the belief that dreaming at night is a real rift into alternative realities. This idea is reflected in his artistic work, which strikes a balance between playfulness and melancholy, color and shadow, harmony and dissonance. Combining photography with digital painting techniques and (recently) generative art techniques, Grà particularly favors the figurative genre. In this style, he often depicts female figures, driven by a fascination with exploring emotions and feelings, extending the concept of night dreaming—a glimpse into alternative realities—to the diverse realities of each inner world. Much like the unsettling and complex characters of McEwan and Houellebecq, he is drawn to the ambiguity of human emotions—especially those that are difficult to express and can provoke discomfort.
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