Kodda - Metamorphy

Kodda is a nomad in a digital matrix; he plays with his brushes as he produces music and paintings - distorting time, sampling a color, a texture, a gesture, and blending them with the constant ebb of influences fed to himself to create a "unique and polyphonic" interpretation of modern painting.

"[Kodda] morphs and mixes Masters, reinterpreting their work and rejuvenating the Classical genre". One of the inherent principles of the Renaissance was to look to the Classical to solve the problems of the future; this is echoed through Kodda in the modern day. He bears the characteristics of a Renaissance man in his multi-faceted nature and pursuit of aesthetic perfection, utilizing mixed media and exercising his creative talent in a diversity of fields. Kodda, as an artist, exhibits great versatility and maintains a strong sense of aesthetic balance; making creative use of cutting edge digital technologies in arrangement, augmentation, manipulation, painting and music production (he mixes music tailored to each exhibit opening). Kodda looks to the powerful statements reflected in iconographic religious art from the Renaissance to capture the tools needed to "transcend the human element and capture the ethereal" in his own work.

A more contemporary reference point for Kodda's work is the Steampunk movement as it pertains to art. The movement, which derives its name from steam-powered machines, cherishes elements of a bygone Victorian era through the lens of past visions of future grandeur. Although Steampunk is not directly reflected in Kodda's work, it shares the same romantic spirit. Kodda delves back to the Renaissance with an eye to the future; he is by very definition a modern-day Renaissance man.

There are many artists that inspire Kodda -- Carvaggio, Ingres, Poussin and Van Loo, just to name a few. And while Kodda and his Renaissance Master role models may be separated by time and their respective mediums, but they are united through unity of concept and aesthetic principle.