Iconica Fine Art by Isabella Garrucho is honored to present  her new artist, Costas Picadas, with his latest work, Blossoming Anatomy: a series of limited edition prints after 3D models. Picadas grew up in Greece and presently resides in New York (raised with the influence of the son of a successful doctor, we can say that from very early in his career as an artist, the human body and all intricate parts of the anatomy planted a seed to the fascinating artwork he is executing).

After studying art in Paris, he went to New York City, where he kept his studio. His work consists mainly of paintings, but recently, he has been concentrating on remarkably fascinating images: pictures that seem mostly to relate to nature, designed and animated by the computer. The images themselves look like delicate renditions of plants, derived from medical illustrations extracted from accurate 3D models of the anatomical parts of the human body—so the works combine images from both worlds. There are many ties between methods and outlooks in this work group by Picadas. First, there is the connection/contrast between two ways of seeing, beautifully merged–the imagery seems like it has deep ties to nature. Still, the precision of the elements argues for mechanical or scientific production. The existence of natural forms, clearly made by computer, is a contradiction in terms: nature cannot be copied by an independent electronic process without losing a large part of what it is—a visible freedom from mechanical organization, as well as materials and textures and colors that overwhelm us by their non-mechanic beauty. The remarkable thing about Picadas’ work is its fidelity to nature, even when the imagery's precision tends to push the image toward the artificial.