The artworks belonging to the series Nude by Scott Lyall (Toronto, Canada, 1964) are digital prints on canvas in which the combination of color shades originates from the decomposition of a single invisible pixel, randomly selected by the artist from a digital color model. The chromatic code information is then sent to a UV printer. After the printer fixes the ink directly on the surface, the canvas absorbs it. The pictorial surface, devoided of paint, becomes a representation of the invisible and the absence of shape and matter, relying solely on light radiation – able to propagate even in a vacuum –to let us perceive its colors.
Scott Lyall