Sergio Lombardo. Stochastic Works 2012-2017

From 1980 Lombardo is involved in the so-called Stochastic Painting. Among all the series of works in which Lombardo has tested his theories, Stochastic Painting is the one he has focused on for longer time. Lombardo has defined over the years several automatic methods of composition based on the application of random algorithms. Created by these mathematical methods, Stochastic Paintings show different perceptive structures that offer to the spectator variable and imaginative visual interpretations of the nonsense forms painted on the canvas’ surface. The first experiments were exhibited in 1983 and the research continued without a pause until today, with an unceasing experimental approach. In the last years, this methodological experimentation has evolved in the so-called Stochastic Tilings: Surfaces consisting of tiles, based on new stochastic shape-generative algorithms, developed from the first methods Lombardo discovered in the Eighties and Nineties. These tiles have raised some new aesthetic problems about composition, combination and colouring of the shapes. Lombardo always solved these problems on the light of the Eventualist theory, developing new stochastic procedures of shape creation, as in the last paintings, named Quilts, exhibited here for the first time.