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Chicote Artist Spain

SIMBIOSISMO

Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est. (2022)
Chicote Artist Spain

CHICOTE CFC

"The life and work of Chicote are pure reflection,
an equivocal introspection that suffers
of being as banal and as absurd as it is
the most judicious of efforts to argue life"

Chicote cfc / 2012

PROCESS

SIMBIOSISMO

Once photography reaches the highest level of its capacity for retouching, manipulation, and visual impact, an inevitable turning point emerges. Its evolution as an autonomous medium begins to encounter the limits of its own language. It is at this threshold where the need for a deeper transformation arises: the image ceases to be merely a record and becomes a form of perceptual construction. In this transition, photographic practice can move toward hybrid territories in which the image is no longer understood as a document, but as a plastic and malleable substance. It is within this context that what we call Symbiotic Art or Symbiosism is situated: a process in which the original photographic image —the photogenesis— undergoes a symbolic metabolization that transforms it into a new unit of visual meaning. The integration of pictorial procedures within the development of the image allows its structural elements —light, colour, texture, contrast, and composition— to be reconfigured not as original attributes, but as reinterpreted components within a new perceptual logic. The resulting image does not simply represent another reality: it reorganises and reconstructs it from a distinct visual identity, albeit one derived from its origin. Symbiosism does not establish a closed method. On the contrary, it is grounded in the procedural openness of the work, where each artist develops their own system of transformation. This absence of fixed codification does not imply arbitrariness, but rather the organic evolution of language. It is time, research, and experience that consolidate a unique stylistic identity within each creative process. In this sense, the author’s current work forms part of an ongoing line of research that will continue to evolve in coherence with the principles of Symbiotic Art.

“The artist today is more experimental than ever.
He researches, rehearses, and probes constantly with his work.
He hardly plans the final result of his work"

Chicote CFC / 2012

METHODOLOGY

STUDY AND

Creative abilities multiply when we try to carry out work using the potential and technical possibilities provided by two disciplines as different as the photographic process and pictorial art. This requires having some practice in:

ARTISTIC RESOURCES:

Have manual skills. Have knowledge in the use and mix of different plastic techniques. Obviously show imaginative and abstraction skills and understand that this is an ideal means of communication.

PHOTOGRAPHIC AND COMPUTER RESOURCES:
 

Know about the application of the different filters and visual effects of development. Have some control to generate programmed work systems and have some experience in design software. Create a combination of templates and base elements to understand that greater agility and precision in finishing can be obtained.

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Start Image

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Final Result of the Work / Title: LA COMITIVA (2016) EM-P0187

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Means and resources used during the process.

Both in the conception and in his approach, "Chicote" distances himself from any interference that could generate doubts, conflicts, questions or provocation, as well as from anything that intends to change, offend or alter the principles of the observer while contemplating his work. This is limited solely to expressing personal emotions, feelings and reasoning about what he observes, feels and senses. It is a mere analysis exercise within that phase that leads him to the search and recognition of his own entity as an individual.

Summary of processes and intermediate steps in the execution of the work

Simbiosismo

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PROCESS OF CREATING A WORK IN SYMBIOSIS

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