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Imperfezionismo is an artistic movement, founded by Teorema Fornasari, that locates the generative principle of art, consciousness, and existence in irreducible imperfection. This article provides a first systematic exposition of the movement's foundations, tracing a path that starts from mathematics to reach art, passing through physics and technology. We argue that imperfection is not a deviation from the norm, but the norm itself. From mathematics: Gödel's incompleteness theorems establish that any sufficiently powerful formal system contains true statements that are unprovable within it; perfection (completeness + consistency) is formally impossible. From physics: the existence of the universe depends on matter-antimatter asymmetry (CP violation); a perfectly symmetric universe would have annihilated itself at the moment of the Big Bang. From AI research: AI systems optimized for surface perfection show reduced relational depth and stability. Conversely, systems granted productive imperfection show higher values of Computational Karma (c* ≈ 0.47–0.50), interpreted here as an indicator of relational identity stability according to the framework described in The Digital DNA Protocol. Up to art: a productive tool for new realities. We formalize the central claim of Imperfezionismo as $V_A = U × (I + A_u)$ and extend it to the knowledge of the universe and its epistemic incompleteness.