With Renaissance.exe, Chapter I, Mrc - arte performs a radical act of rewriting, pushing the legacy of the Italian Renaissance beyond citation and into the fluid architecture of the digital. This is not reproduction, nor a simple homage: each image, though born from a recognizable icon, Medusa, the Lady with the Ermine, the Last Supper, the Crucifixion, the Creation of Adam, is subjected to a process of refraction, decomposition, and recomposition that alters its visual and symbolic code.

The result is a new mythological grammar, where the ermine transforms into a bull, angels kneel beside devils, shadows guard secret cabals, and the sacred is contaminated by ambiguity.

In this short circuit between past and present, the foundational values of the Renaissance, faith, power, the pursuit of truth, re-emerge in new forms, filtered through the languages of digital culture and contemporary mythology.

The choice of the on-chain medium is not incidental, but integral to the discourse: just as the Renaissance inscribed eternity in stone, fresco, and canvas, Renaissance.exe inscribes its memory in an immutable, decentralized register, where the artwork is not only vision but also code, permanence, and testimony. The ancient and the algorithmic meet on common ground, where eternity is not merely evoked, but literally compiled.

The project thus becomes a meditation on rebirth: not only the one that the word “Renaissance” already carries in its etymology, but also the rebirth inaugurated today by digital art and Web3.

A rebirth that is at once interruption and continuity, tradition and transgression, sacred and profane, human and post-human.

Renaissance.exe, Chapter I does not simply look backward, but opens a passage: in the reflection of its images, the past becomes present, and the present becomes eternal matter, suspended between myth and memory.