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Artist Statement:
Hi, my name is JOSEPH DE
PIAZZA, born and raised in the
United States. When I was a
kid, growing up in Brooklyn,
NY, I hated abstract art
because I couldn't understand
it. What made things worse,
was being told “I wasn't
sophisticated enough to
understand it,” and probably
never would be, “Now Go Away
Kid!” So I went away to the
country and ended up looking
for the least sophisticated
pieces of country driftwood I
could find to work with, and
to my surprise and disbeliefs,
I found Mother Nature’s
abstracts. I was so happy and
pleased, now I could stop
trying to be sophisticated and
still be able to create
abstract art. Which of course,
I secretly loved and the
Quantum Collection was born.
The name of the collection
is a tribute to the
fundamental theory of quantum
physics, which is responsible
for the product technology
that enables us to produce
fine, abstract art, with
beauty and integrity, from
country driftwood. Technology
has now advanced to such a
degree, that a piece of art
can be preserved indefinitely,
with little periodic upkeep
over decades of time.
The real quantum collection
is a theoretical concept of...
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Artist Exhibitions:
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
The Quantum Collection, Role
Model Collection by Joseph Di
Piazza
74 piece collection, sold only
as a whole role model
collection.
Starting Bids for entire
collection $10,000,000.00
Please contact the Montserrat
Gallery, NYC at
www.montserratgallery.com...
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Commissions:
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Joseph Dipiazza Biography:
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Age
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54
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Single
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
Catholic |
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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Synopsis:
Terminations in Space and The Quantum Collection.
A termination point in space is a theory by Joseph Di Piazza that places our exact locations to the universe itself. Joe’s theory shows that in this atmosphere we call earth, we each have our own exact termination points that control the molecules we are made of. A simple way of saying that where a person is in the universe controls their size, and density. Here on earth a person might be 6 ft tall and weigh 190 lbs, but if placed far out into deep space between two galaxies, all of that can change. If a person could somehow magically place themselves deep in space between two galaxies, their molecules would stretch based on the gravity pulling from both galaxies in opposite directions. The same person here might be 60 ft tall, their molecules stretched thinnest, and they may even appear to be transparent, yet the mass is always the same. Weighing 190 lbs as Einstein’s E = MC² has long since proven to us all.
Joseph DiPiazza, a highly intelligent, savant, who’s heroes were Richard Feynman, Alan Aspen, Kim Peek, Max Plank, Albert Einstein and all of the other physicists responsible for today’s Quantum Theory. Joe is a US Navy soldier that goes to Vietnam on a famous ship the USS Hansen. While serving his duty with the Navy Seals, he is called to go ashore several times, planning new targets for each new nightly raid of bombing. While
going ashore he is faced with a lot of dead victims of the war itself, each of the victims appearing to look the same to Joe, they are all humans, no matter what race of people. Later he looks closer and he sees a few dead tropical animals, birds and lizards, this changes his mind forever, all creatures he always loved as a child. From that moment on, he begins a lifetime of nightmares that have him surrounded by dead toucans, parrots, lizards, etc. Joe would leave the Navy in 1973 with PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Both disorders, only reinforcing his study of physics and his ability to produce fine art. Thanks to the product technology he would later use to complete his work.
After the war Joe becomes a Merchant Marine out of Port Elizabeth, again he is out to sea more then on land and the nightmares continue. Joe continues to study physics the entire time at sea. There he feels connected to god and the universe, just by looking at the ocean of seagulls and an occasional seal or dolphin. Joe worked on the ships as Chief Electrician/Chief Pumpman, both highly intelligent professions. Joe is a man of many great ocean liners either US Navy or Merchant Marine ships.
After 10 years as a Merchant Marine Joe is then disabled due to a back injury he receives during heavy loading of the ships. A crane snaps a cable across his back leaving him with several herniated discs in his lower spine. On his new life of disability he spends a lot of time walking on Keansburg Beach, NJ, a place he could go to close to his home and still love the ocean. While spending time walking the beaches he begins to find pieces of driftwood, each piece appearing to look like one or more of the dead tropical creatures he left in Vietnam. The more pieces he finds, the less nightmares he has of the birds. And as he continues to bring them to life with paint and quantum physics, eventually he stops having nightmares all together.
He uses his knowledge of physics to continue studying the product technology of different types of paint molecules. Here he finds that today a single layer of commercial spray paint can preserve a piece of wood for 3-5 years if kept in a climate controlled setting. Joe begins to paint each piece of driftwood and figures out that if one layer of paint can protect it for 3-5 years then hundreds of layers could protect them for thousands of years. In the end, his nightmares stop and The Quantum Collection is born.
For the next 20 years Joe spends his time searching for driftwood in every place he can, on the shorelines of rivers, on oceans, and bays. He even spends time in the mountains of Susquehanna, PA finding even more driftwood, country driftwood. He builds a collection of about 300 pieces and begins to evaluate each one for its beauty and figure. As his collection grows and evaluations continue, he finally destroys more then 60% of the collection simply because of their beauty or not. This leaves him with the best 75 pieces of all 300 pieces. Here he begins to prime coat them and prepare to be painted.
Joe would spend much of the 1990’s through 2007 finishing his collection with hundreds of layers of transparent spray paint. Because Joe grew up with a lifetime of physics, he dedicates the entire collection to the scientists that allowed him to preserve it. He names it The Quantum Collection. For the time between 2004 and 2008 he shares a few taxicabs home with Charles Kwiatkowski, a disabled employee from the AT&T phone company that would eventually grow to become Joe’s friend and manager of the collection. Charles and his wife Mary would begin to photograph, and publicize all of the works, creating a thorough portfolio and incorporating it through Gallery & Studio Magazine by Ed McCormack.
As time goes on and the collection stays together, eventually there comes a time when you are no longer allowed to keep driftwood, because it is considered endangered. The earth is running out of trees. Thousands of years go by and the Govt uses a few of the pieces to extract the DNA of the wood to begin growing new forest and the planet is saved by The Quantum Collection and one Navy Man’s dreams and nightmares.
Hip Hip Hooray for Joe!
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Enameling
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Contemporary Art - (Now)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Dorothy Culpepper
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| Favorite Work of Art |
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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