The long and complex shift in our culture from analog media to digital media is the most significant transformation of our generation. Its long-reaching and manifold effects continue to permeate all modes of visual expression. Although, one of the most interesting shifts in painting has nothing to do with the media used, but instead the forms, composition, and content. Digital tools have affected our imaginary, the logic of Photoshop or pixelation shapes a painter’s approach to color, form, depth, shade, tone, volume; all the parameters that guide the application of paint to canvas. Content of paintings has been affected as well as the meaning, as the viewer takes in the work or communicates it. In this context, the aim of "Cut, Copy, Paste" is to make the observer reflect on the fact that the showcased artworks were not even conceivable before digital imaging changed the structure of our images.

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This group show brings together five artists whose creative research focuses on the changes that the digital era has brought in the art field. The exploration starts with the algorithmic processes with whom Carter Flachbarth synthesizes into a single image, through an app he developed himself, all the drawings and writings he has recorded of his daily life.

Katelyn Ledford is instead centered on the use of shapes, symbols, and images sourced from the digital to create de-constructed representations through various speeds and methods of painting, such as meticulous oil painting, spray paint, and collaged materials. Youada portrays new characters born from the youth and street contemporary culture. Through its all-digital painting technique, DotPigeon depicts contrasting sceneries that allude to the controversial contraposition between the conscious and the unconscious, perfection, and chaos. Evgen Čopi Gorišek, takes his subjects from the web and translates them into paintings, thus creating a deep connection between his artworks and the digital world. It is through a fine process of cutting, copying, and pasting that Evgen replicates the 3D spaces, the shadows, the skin tones and small details of the original image.

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