Dito Von Tease is an anonymous digital artist who lives in Bologna, Italy. He uses a pseudonym instead of his real name. Dito has an impressive educational background in fine arts, communication, and design from renowned Italian schools. He has taken a unique path by working as both an art director in prominent advertising agencies and an independent digital artist who follows his passion.
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Dito reflects on a prevalent parental trend of concealing their children’s faces using emojis or blurring when posting their pictures online due to privacy concerns. He ponders over the moral consequences of this technique and wonders if abstaining from uploading such images could be a more practical resolution.
His thoughts take a captivating turn as he envisions a future, maybe a millennium ahead, where historians discover images of children from the early 2000s. Dito reflects on the meaning of a society that portrayed children without faces in their visual art. Did this represent a societal shift? Did a generation without identities emerge during that time? What about children who were depicted with faces? Did they belong to a specific class? These inquiries sparked Dito’s creativity and motivated his current artistic pursuit.
Exploring aesthetics, Dito conducted an intriguing artistic experiment by adorning his face with emojis portraying children from his family’s vintage paintings. The result was both thought-provoking and unexpectedly amusing.
Dito Von Tease’s distinctive artistic style prompts reflection on the crossroads of confidentiality, historical portrayal, and the function of identity in art. Through merging past and present, he defies traditional concepts of portraiture, urging spectators to scrutinize the fundamental importance of obscuring or unveiling faces in visual art.
