Sabato visconti biography

In his excellent article of last year, Miles Klee reviewed the varied history and influences of the glitch art movement.

Perhaps beginning with the absurdist Dada art movement of the early 20th century, glitch has always been about subversion and deconstruction – essentially anarchy.

The word itself, Klee believes, comes from the Yiddish words for slippage.

With the onset of the digital age, the new breed of artists have adapted this ideology with glee, taking pleasure in playing with the pixelated slurs and mistakes (in much the same way guitarists used the warm fuzz sound created by the old valve amplifiers).

Sao Paulo-born photographer Sabato Visconti is an excellent example of a modern day artist who embraces this ethos.

He describes his work as seeking “to deconstruct mainstream notions of beauty and nostalgia while pushing the limits of what defines photography in our day and age”.  This is evident from his stunning pie