Maurizio manzieri biography of michael

Much of your work features altered humans as the subject&#;some robotic, some that seem hybridized, some completely fantastical. Is there a theme at work there? What does it mean to you?

I&#;ve always been fantasizing about an optimistic race in a faraway galaxy where history followed a different path and everything went smoothly. It seems that people in this place survived cold wars or global warming, and slowly began to cultivate the concept of &#;Beauty.&#; They became an advanced civilization mastering top-notch cosmetic surgery applied to human beings as well as robots. I&#;m always been fond of dystopian universes, Blade Runner, the cyberpunk movement, yet starships are not necessarily to be rusted, torn by battles, in bad shape. They could be intelligent, made of glass and titanium, pink or pure white &#; About mankind, beauty is an abstract concept we are used to understand and appreciate around us. Our genome has already been journeying toward this direction and beauty is just one of the many natural instruments working in an ongoing process of competition and selection&#;

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