Florentine artist Michelangelo Bastiani was born in 1979 and graduated first from Florence’s Art Institute and later from the Academy of Fine Arts, where he majored in painting and photography under Maestro Gustavo Giulietti. Bastiani lived in California and New York before returning to Tuscany and has held critically acclaimed exhibitions in the Italian cities of Florence, Rome, Venice, Milan, Capri, and Pietrasanta, and internationally in Paris, London, Munich, Istanbul, Frankfurt, Kiev, and Oslo. In the United States, Bastiani has exhibited in New York, Miami, Palm Beach, The Hamptons, Boca Raton, Houston, Austin, and Dallas. He also exhibited at Saatchi Gallery in London and Mana Contemporary Museum in Jersey City. Michelangelo Bastiani’s works are video installations on large screens, interactive video projections and holograms, focusing on elements of nature and the state of matter. Michelangelo Bastiani uses technology in his representations of water to illustrate its dynamic nature and facilitate a direct connection and tangible interaction with the viewer. Bastiani developed his hologram installations and interactive video projections on LED screens exploring the theme of liquidness, with water representing the constantly changing intrinsic nature of art. Of his work, Bastiani says: Based on Bohm’s oleographic theory that “our universe is a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram”, in my works I reproduce a microcosm in a bottle, where videos, two dimensional by nature, become solid and dynamic realities. It is a visual perception that can be explained through the Gestalt laws.