STATEMENT ~ ongoing
 ∠«Ti estí?» [What is it?] 

^{¢ℜ∇∂◊} CRUDOSTUDIO is a duo formed by Italian artists
Alice Palamenghi and Giuliano Tarlao

¹ crudostudio is a vision and a project between graphic design and art-practices research
² crudostudio is a about the contemporary scenario of which we are inhabitants

∝ crudostudio is about a digital and non-digital matter. CRUDO or crudo: cru|do / ‘krudo / IPA: [ˈkruːdo] in italian ~ raw in common sense ~ uncooked, or kryos ~ frost, too cold for the fire. it’s related to a state of matter: crudo ~ raw namely referred to something has not been processed. Raw, likewise is something uncooked, or insufficiently subjected to the action of fire to change its state.

As an extension of the term, crudo may be understood as raw-material. ∼ cruːdo’studjio ~ cruːdo’stùdio, rendered in the form of  ‘CRUDOSTUDIO’ or ‘crudostudio’ refers to the action, to the labour on a mass, on a raw entity not yet processed. CRUDOSTUDIO thinks about the limits and the possibilities towards the file [as raw material], renders and outputs related to it. 

¹ crudostudio is about The Internet 

² crudostudio is about virtual non-virtual environment and the space in between 

³ crudostudio is about the inframince 
~ infra-thin / infra-slim

^½ crudostudio is the consequent work on that mass-matter-material. Studio, from latin studio, stùdio / stu|dio / ’studjo / IPA: [‘studjo] ~ 'studio' or ’home office’, is a term also known as “practice”, “metod” [odos] , a purpose.

^½ CRUDOSTUDIO is working in the cross-over field of graphic-design and contemporary art. 

ℑ Our research is around: The Internet, the memories of documents [acts], the digital non-digital environment intended ¹as a Culture and Nature; ²about density gradient and the related space in which the masses are scattered and sorted by; ³About the history [sedimentation of knowledges / technologies]. About the post post- acts like modernism and post-modernism, especially the 1989 and related dynamics. [Statement V.2 –– Apr. 2019]

2017 — 2020