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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Several years ago I began using this style. At that time I came to see a lot of work of other people on the internet, and I wanted to become able to create my favorite images, just for myself. The roots of my creation is still 'self-satisfaction'. By that time, I already had a tablet and Photoshop, so the basic instruments to make digital art were not missing. I've never wanted to make art in the traditional way. I don't draw on paper neither like it. Of course, I'm still very bad at drawing in digital but I can always retouch a little bit if there's something I don't like to see. </span></div>
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<!--EndFragment--></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-67275872126467365432011-12-12T11:24:00.008+01:002012-01-24T11:11:40.172+01:00Where The Wind Blows: interview with Aron WiesenfeldAron Wiesenfeld was born in 1972 in Washington, D.C. <br />
He began drawing very early encouraged by his family till one of his friends introduced him to comics in fifth grade. <br />
Since he was a child he has loved to build things and he still admits the depth of its interest in the process of creation: "I think my work process now is like building - the joy of it is in seeing it grow and what it will become" (<a href="http://www.erraticphenomena.com/2010/06/aron-wiesenfelds-poignant-journeys.html">Erratic Phenomena</a>)<br />
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<b>Hi Aron, imagine you could close your eyes and go back to a specific moment of your childhood, what it would be?</b> <br />
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One day on the school yard when I was about 7, the wind was blowing so hard that I could literally fall forward into it, and the wind was holding me up. It was a magical physics-defying moment. <br />
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<b>You've been a comic book artist for a long time but then something you could not overcome happen with your last project "Deathblow and Wolverine". How did it come that you change direction from comic book artist to painter?</b> <br />
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I had painted with oil and acrylics when I was a teenager. When I went into drawing comics when I was 20 I stopped painting because it was all pencil and paper work. After about 5 years I quit comics, and went to art school where I quickly rediscovered my initial love of painting. It was a circular road back to painting.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Lesson", charcoal on paper, 33 x 50 inches, 2007</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Flowerbed", oil on canvas, 27 x 35 inches, 2009</td></tr>
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<b>Your paintings and drawings are narratively powerful, you look at them and you see a storytelling. Who are the people that inspire you?</b> <br />
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My complete list might go on for a thousands names. The artist that I keep going back to more than any are Caspar David Friedrich, Bruegel, Goya, Titian, Puvis de Chavannes, August Sander and Balthus. <br />
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The idea that I was a "narrative" painter was something that I resisted. <br />
My thinking was that if I was telling stories, and painting in a traditional way, then I was doing illustration, not art. But many of the great artists from history might be called "illustrators" today, so I've decided to embrace it. Those kind of labels are useless anyway. I think a better way to categorize art is whether it is authentic or not. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Crown", oil on canvas, 23 x 19 inches, 2011</td></tr>
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<b>Are you used to plan step by step your work or are you more for the improvisation?</b><br />
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It's both. The sketch with is usually very rough. I proceed with a painting in a step by step manner, layering colors in a methodical way, based on some of the techniques of the old masters. I refine my thinking about what the painting is while it progresses, so my thoughts about it come into focus as the painting develops. I think the concept and the execution are inseparable. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Chris McCandless", oil on canvas, 48 x 62 inches, 2003</td></tr>
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<b>Nature has a prominent relevance in your work but characters too. Do you think first about the character or the landscape while you're painting?</b> <br />
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It depends on where the initial idea came from, each painting's origin is different. I get ideas from various places: photos, books, novels, things I see outside, etc.<br />
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There has to be a combination of things. Often I will have an image of something rattling around in my head, but it's not an "idea", just a feeling that there is potential. Then I will come across a second element, and the combination of the two make some kind of magic happen, and then it's an idea. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Flood", oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches, 2009</td></tr>
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<b>Your drawings are incredibly full of minute details and shadows. How charcoal can make you achieve this impressive results?</b> <br />
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The charcoal drawings are very labor intensive, they often take more than the paintings. I start out with big, loose shapes, and refine them over weeks of work. I use big sheets of textured paper, which is good for holding the charcoal in place but I have to really fight with the paper to make the charcoal do what I want it to. The final stage is days of filling in small light spots with a charcoal pencil, and taking out small dark spots with a sharpened eraser. It's the only way to make smooth transitions with the kind of paper I use. That part is a pain, but the end result is a woven texture that I really like. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Runoff", charcoal on paper, 16.5 x 14 inches, 2011</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Leigh", charcoal on paper, 15.5 x 23.5 inches, 2007</td></tr>
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<b>How many hours per day you spend painting?</b> <br />
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About eight, with one or two days off a week. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Early", oil on canvas, 12 x 10 inches, 2008</td></tr>
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<b>There are many recurrent elements in your work, such as tunnels, bridges, black spaces and rocks. Where do this symbolism comes from?</b><br />
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They showed up on their own, like stray cats. I base my paintings on my own sense that something feels important, so when it comes to symbolism, I can't say 'this means this' and 'that means that'.<br />
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When there are repeated elements in multiple paintings, it's like a recurring dream. Sometimes a tunnel is just a tunnel, but sometimes it feels like I'm channeling something, I have a sense of what it's about, but never completely. I think symbols are always like that, their meaning is very subjective. <br />
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The conscious part of the brain is not capable of making art. <br />
Artists must devise ways of bypassing it to let deeper areas speak. For me the act of painting, the laborious trial and error, is a way of doing that.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Wedding Party", oil on canvas, 70 x 95 inches, 2011</td></tr>
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<b>You've been recently exhibited at <a href="http://arcadiafinearts.com/">Arcadia Gallery</a> in New York. <br />
What was the main subject of this solo show?</b> <br />
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It was about bringing light into darkness. The light can reveal difficult things that have been hidden away, and free them or heal them. A flame can also represent the continuation of life in a lifeless place, and the promise that it will one day be revived. <br />
The dormant phase of any life cycle is the most creative part, but it happens in secret, hidden under the snow and in the dark.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Guest", oil on canvas, 15 x 18.5 inches, 2011</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Snowbed", oil on canvas, 27 x 33 inches, 2011</td></tr>
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<b>We're really proud of having you as one of the artists that joined <a href="http://www.facebook.com/THISISSOCONTEMPORARY">THIS IS SO CONTEMPORARY</a>. As your opinion means a lot to us, we'd like to ask you what you think about it and why you enjoy to be a part of that.</b> <br />
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Thanks for inviting me! <br />
I like that there's so much diversity of styles and mediums, it has helped me become aware that there's a lot of really good art being made right now. I know that <a href="http://www.facebook.com/daniela.petkovic">you</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pedromartinsmagalhaes">Pedro</a> put a lot of time and energy into THIS IS SO CONTEMPORARY, and it shows. <br />
It's a very vital project. <br />
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Aron Wiesenfeld's <a href="http://www.aronwiesenfeld.com/">Official Website</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150308665333692.355332.89359248691&type=3">His Album on THIS IS SO CONTEMPORARY</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Night", oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches, 2011</td></tr>
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<div align="center">A video made by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/shivabel">Shivabel</a> that celebrates the art of Aron Wiesenfeld<br />
Music by Hannah Fury, 'Of Longing and Otherness'<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DEblsclQQfs" width="400"></iframe></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-5318191628516879942011-10-22T23:14:00.043+02:002012-01-24T16:05:22.599+01:00Life Is But A Dream: interviewing Jana Brike<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"></span></b></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Courier; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">"The Last Breath of Emily"</b> <br />
19.75" x 19.75" gouache, tempera, and oil <br />
w/graphite, pen, print, and spray-paint</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<div style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Courier; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Created for BLAB! curated by Monte Beauchamp</span></div></td></tr>
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<b>Hi Jana, you're from Riga, Latvia. Please, describe your homeland in few words.</b><br />
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Latvia is a small country of less than 2 million people, half of them Latvian nationality, still becoming less and less. So I'm becoming almost a dodo bird. <br />
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It influenced me quite a lot, growing up here. <br />
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For one thing, it's a country with a twisted history. I was born under the Soviet occupation, and was already about 10 years old when the Union collapsed. <br />
10 years old means quite an intelligent human with developed basic concepts about life, and - so different concepts than those which rule the world now. The regain of the independence was a time of big changes here. I remember having lucid dreams of how I'd be out there with the rest of civilian crowd in the centre of Riga for the sake of freedom with bare hands against Soviet tanks, like it happened. I've painted little girls with guns, and it is from these dreams, and nothing 'pop' or trendy about the image.<br />
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And then the environment of Latvia. Peaceful and calm. I've spent all my summers with grandmother in the country, wandering in woods around my home alone since being a small child. I've been taught to tell apart the poisonous mushrooms from the good ones in the forests, to recognize herbs and berries, and gather them in summer, and make herbal remedies for winter when everybody's sick from longing for sun. And taught other ridiculous things - like, to work with the spinning wheel!<br />
Maybe someday, if the apocalyptic cinema proves to be prophetic and the world we know ends, and there is no electricity and no shopping malls, my hopelessly useless knowledge comes in handy, who knows. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b></b></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">"The End of the Invincible Man"</b><br />
19-3/4" x 39-1/2" gouache, tempera, and oil <br />
with graphite, pen, print, and spray-paint</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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</b></span></div><b>How do you think is the art market in your country? (i mean if people are interested in the kind of art you deal with, if artists like you are recognized by a big amount of people or just a nieche, how much galleries invest on artists from the XXI century and emerging artists, etc.)</b><br />
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For one thing, it is impossible to maintain a serious internal art market with a long-term policy based on 2 million people, is it? Right now the art market is not limited with the borders of the country. It is one tax zone inside European Union, which makes business and marketing much easier. There are a couple of wonderful Latvian galleries, which participate in global Art Fairs, prop the artists. I'm working with one of the best now. <br />
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Also the public funding is available for artists in Latvia. I've received government grants to do my work. <br />
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There are not many working the way I do. For a while I did think it tempting to be part of a 'movement'. It does legitimize what I'm doing in a way. But then again, it binds my arms too for further development. <br />
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27.75” x 35.75” gouache, tempera, and oil <br />
with graphite, pen, print, and spray-paint</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">“Book of Taboo” series, exhibited in </span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Distinction gallery, CA, USA</span></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><b>Have you ever thought about moving to another country which could allow you to have more contacts with big galleries and artists like you?</b><br />
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No, I haven't seriously. <br />
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I would think long where to move, there are places which affect me too strong in some strange basic archetypical way, where I can spend a few days, or a few hours, but take months to regain balance afterwards. Like Venice, tangled and twisted like human brain. Or Los Angeles.<br />
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For one thing, I don't think that in the world like it functions now, artists are pidgeonholed by geographical place they come from. For instance, there are million of transitional opportunities, like residency programs, which may keep an artists moving around the globe. <br />
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Well, maybe it is different with those small strong currents in particular cities in so called 'lowbrow' scene, which is a community based get-together, where to be on the spot every day is so important. <br />
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I need time and peace to work though. My approximate ideal program is to spend a month or two a year travelling, meeting galleries and artists, and to spend the rest of the time working at my projects in studio, it doesn't matter where the exact spot is. To be relatively out of sight in some marginal woods of Northern Europe is okay, as gives me the solitude, peace and time which I require. <br />
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I don't say the I'll never move my home to another country though. I am quite aware that sometimes I have to give up much, sometimes even everything I hold dear, to attain more. And beyond measure. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'OCR A Extended';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'OCR A Extended';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">"Five Sins of Amelia"</span></b></div><br />
<div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">14” x 11” Colored pencil and graphite on paper</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">“Book of Taboo” series, exhibited </span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">in Distinction gallery, CA, USA</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'OCR A Extended';"><br />
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<b>How much the internet helped you to be know by the general public?</b><br />
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I do know that I have a certain amount of people who follow my work enthusiastically, and many of them have got to know me via mass media, and very much the internet. And this wonderful crowd is very much of my impellent. This is a special time like never before, when everybody can reach out easily and fast to an artist with a comment, or rebuke, or adoration. This interaction cannot be ignored. <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">23"x 23" gouache, tempera, and oil </span><br />
<div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"> with graphite, pen, print, and spray-paint</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">“Voyage Inside” series, exhibited in </span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Curly Tale gallery, Chicago, USA</span></div></td></tr>
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<b>Where do you get the inspiration for your art?</b><br />
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My out-of-body experiences! (smile)<br />
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Okay, back to common sense answers. <br />
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The way I build my cycles of work, is to find a strong backbone of the main feeling, and build a visually compelling 'flesh' around it. The ideas come very spontaneously and sometimes unexpected. The inducement can be just about anything. Starting from very indirect things which I cannot even detected, to cinema, books etc. <br />
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Like, for my little video I did based on my paintings. The first inspiration was the books I was reading, one about the history of quantum physics and the other Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. And the other inspiration was an occasional conversation with my 5years old son. He was asking me a question - what is stronger - heat or cold, light or darkness? - and I gave a fast unwitting answer - that there is no cold or darkness in physics at all, so it cannot be stronger. There is just energy, which is light and heat (or life), and there is a condition when the energy is absent. And I said it, and thought something like - damn, that sounds like the basic theology i'm searching for my work!!!<br />
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But generally speaking, life is my inspiration. The way I comprehend it, and myself. People are my inspiration. The stare of a human soul - dreams, longing, love, pain - that is what my visual images are about. <br />
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When I was a child, like 10 or so years old, I used to go to my art school in the city centre, which took half an hour each direction alone by train. People used to talk to me on train almost every day - grownup men, women, oldsters. I have forgotten their stories, as I didn't even understand most of them, but some are coming back in great detail in my mind now. Some about search for love, fulfillment, about obligation. But some very much inappropriate for a child, about death, passions, loneliness, violence, despair, hopelessness. Now I see my inborn automatic curiosity about inner processes and conditions of humans was even dangerous in some sense. I remember big rough men crying with me. I almost never talked or answered. I just wonder what made those people tell their dark dirty secrets to a random mute child. I think I was listening visually - as if I would be laughing and playing with some kind of their inner beasts while not paying much attention to the words at all. I don't communicate like this socially anymore, or at least very rarely, - I just try to capture this feeling of abreaction through my art. It seems so surreal now, like some obscure cloudland zone which ceased to exist when I got out of the train. I might start painting ghost trains. <br />
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When I work out ideas actively on paper, I don't need to see people much, or art of others. My solitude is from where my incentive comes. Or I might say not even just solitude but existential loneliness. I cherish it. As an important state of the creative process. <br />
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But there are of course a few special close people to whom I feel, let's say, some kind of nondescript mutual metaphysical gravitation. This interchange on different levels is the most inspiring thing ever. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b></b></span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">"Importunate Thoughts"</b><br />
14” x 11” Colored pencil and graphite on paper</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">“Book of Taboo” series, exhibited in </span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Distinction gallery, CA, USA</span></div></td></tr>
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<b>There's some kind of 'fil rouge' in the work of all pop surrealist artists. A lot of you seem to love painting the childhood seen in its most ambiguous and brilliant features. Who are the figures that live in your paintings: children with adults features or adults with children ones?</b><br />
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I do not really feel myself as 'pop surrealist' artist - I have found my way of expression, being very from these currents. I've been trained in highly academical surroundings, my education about global art world coming from visiting Venice, Sao Paulo and other biennales, Manifesta, and many similar big major highbrow exhibitions annually for the last 15 years. And the 'pop' art, which mainly came from or was influenced by Asian contemporary art, was referred to as utmost branch of global postmodernism, but never as a disjointed movement. I did feel certain degree of attraction to this 'pop' direction though, it felt like more soul in those pieces than in the disassociated, alienated conceptual scene. <br />
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Regarding the child image, I don't think I paint or avoid something because it is or not a 'fil rouge'. My process is very much a stream of consciousness, a soliloquy. Sometimes I myself need months to 'translate' an image that keeps coming to my mind, as if I would 'translate' a dream. But also I leave much, maybe most of my imagery unverbalized, even for myself. My images are not illustrations for my conscious thoughts. <br />
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I can say though that I wish to depict the most fragile inner part of a human. The most fragile part of ME, where I am weak and most vulnerable, and where I don't protect myself, and where I am open and sensitive to all the delight or pain that comes. It is a way of communication I cannot really use socially, as it looks kind of too naive. Except for people I know, trust and like and with whom I am dumbfoundingly guileless like a child, but in a very self-conscious adult way, the same as when creating my art. <br />
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I paint the innocence, growing pains, desires, sometimes disease, and sometimes blossoming potential, the incredible breathtaking beauty of organic inner growth - of the soul, not the body - so 'child' is the best metaphor I can find for it. <br />
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On the other hand, i'm drawn to childhood concept because it is the time when a person takes the damage most susceptibly, and the rest of the life maybe is just maybe is about hypnotherapy through situations we find ourselves in. And by 'damage' I don't mean just violence or direct trauma of course. A strong overstated notion that life must be this or that, is damaging as well. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">"Little Salome playing"</span></b></div><div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">digital and oil on secondhand wood.</span></div><div style="font: 10.0px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">2009-2010.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">“The Lost Children” series, exhibited </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">in Distinction gallery, CA, USA</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 10px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'OCR A Extended';"> </span></div></td></tr>
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<b>Which are the galleries you're represented by?</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.galleryxo.com/">Gallery XO</a> is representing me in Latvia. <br />
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I have a few other wonderful galleries with whom I am working in Europe and US but not on real representation terms. <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"Itching"</b><br />
50 x 50<br />
"Milk and Blood" series, Gallery XO, Latvia</span></td></tr>
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<b>Is there any gallery you would love to exhibit in?</b><br />
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Like an artist - in the gallery with a smart owner with sense of humour, who lets me work the I have to and with whom I share a common vision about my artist's future. And everybody involved gets incredibly rich in the process too - I cannot leave that out!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>“Prickle”</b><br />
40x90 cm<br />
“Milk and Blood” series, XO gallery, Latvia</span></span></td></tr>
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<b>Are you currently having exhibitions or working for the next future ones?</b><br />
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The first main thing for me is my solo show opening in November 17, in Riga, <a href="http://www.makslaxogalerija.lv/">gallery XO</a>. <br />
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The title for the show is "Milk and Blood". It is an idiom in Latvian language, which is typically referred to a very young healthy beautiful girl or a child, with saying something like, verbatim - she's just pure milk and blood - without paying any attention that both words outside the expression hold very strong complicated semiotic meaning. Milk is the first indispensable food for a human baby. Blood, beside of being the liquid of life, signifies adolescence, for girls, giving birth. Both stand for the growth, evolution, and yes, love too. <br />
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Regarding future, I've had 2 years ahead of me almost scrupulously planned all the time. It's been exhausting lately. I've decided to slow down with making pernickety plans a bit. <br />
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But I have some guidelines for the next year. I have a bigger animation project at which I am going to start working right after my solo show opens. I have a few amazing group shows too. And there are a million of things which I have started and put in the back of my mind waiting for collaborative projects, and sculptures. And I've started programming a visually narrative computer game based on my art some time ago. The worst this is that I like to do almost every step myself. And it does take loads of time. But i'm quite enjoying myself in the process. <br />
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This is just about the form of my work of course. The content is the driving force I don't control. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>“Snow White”</b><br />
35x35 cm<br />
“Milk and Blood” series, XO Gallery, Latvia</span></span></td></tr>
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<b>You recently joined TISCO. Why you liked the idea of sharing your art with us and what would you do to improve our network?</b><br />
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I like the community you are building. I like your artist choices, most of which are playful on the outer level, but hold deep earnestness and sincerity under. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>"Boy with the red riding hood”</b><br />
35x35 cm<br />
“Milk and Blood” series, XO gallery, Latvia</span></span></td></tr>
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<a href="http://janabrike.com/">Jana Brike's website</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150321170998692.357964.89359248691&type=3">The album of Jana Brike on TISCO</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-52651466243074810772011-08-17T16:08:00.036+02:002012-01-24T16:07:15.934+01:00An Otherworldly Journey - The Art of Paolo Guido<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Paolo, what means to you showing your work alongside those of Ray Caesar and Natalie Shau? </b></div><br />
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50 x 70cm, ed. of 2. Digital illustration on Hahnem<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">u</span></span>le. Available at<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>What's your cultural background? </b></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8IqT2XJ4x9zNhpDMuT-uGvuq8YTHcigfWLgZqMKgwDELJ2-pFlDq-Vx1eGdUe5jVRV3hfdrhkohTZi7NLJb1uWXlWUeKCjkFnrQ2ksOCLdwlJdUwRpsky180YL288pmxzDXdkwl7eKn4/s1600/entire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I didn't attend Art schools or academies and i don't make a boast on this. Nevertheless, It was a deeply felt choice that has allowed me to have a less formal access to painting. It's obvious saying that Italy is a country rich in historical tradition and creativeness: even a child can feel it... just breathing the air of this wonderful land. But the word 'History' often implies that the 'Tradition' is subjected to a 'Transition' and sometimes to a 'Treason'. At the same time, i took away from the 'Culture', another concept that can be easily exploited. In the Bel Paese, well-educated people feed on the big names of culture, can gobble and manipulate their thoughts, without having any direct experience of <span class="Apple-style-span">them.</span></div><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I prefer intelligence, cleverness and understanding capability! So, i prefer the stage of intuition: people can see marvellous things, can catch even their strength and their history, only looking each other in the eyes.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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Even. (Triptych right side) 50 x 70cm, ed. of 2. Digital illustration on<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Your works have a decidedly Renaissance imprint although they are the result of a digital experience. What comes out from this unusual "asynchrony" between techniques and </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">characters?</span></b></span><br />
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</div><div>The italian verb 'rinascere' (i.e. 'reborn', from which the term 'Renaissance') is a wonderful word! It sounds good to me! In the Renaissance the foundations for a recovery of classical cultural values were laid, but then they also suffered an evolution (in the 'Mannerism'). I think that in the early period, painting technique were more... hybrid than we can imagine. To be clear, many pictures that are catalogued ad oil paintings, were probably made with a mixture of egg tempera, oil, resin and other mediums whose recipes are very difficult to reconstruct. Digital painting give a great chance of experimentation, if you don't close it in a strict category. I have approached it especially for reason of space, i don't consider myself a digital artist. 'Viator' was born as a digital work, with marked graphic characteristics, then developed in traditional painting and sculpture. 'Viator' is important because it contains the last three steps of a rebirth. From this experience, i have realized that style and technique are sides of the same coin, whose thickness and weight you can value after a long time.<br />
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Digital illustration on Hahnem<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">u</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">le.</span>Available at Dorothy Circus<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Why are you "obsessed" by childhood? (the questions from one of our followers on facebook). </b></span></div><div style="display: inline !important; text-align: left;"><div style="display: inline !important; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>How</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>long</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>does it</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>take</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>to</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>create an</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>artwork</b></span></span></span><span class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>?</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>(on</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>average)</b></span></span></span><span class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>.</b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><br />
</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If I should consider only the time factor, probably I can't make an entire work. Certainly, there are deadlines, too!</span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">The triptych 'Even' - made expressly for the exhibition "Would you be my miracle?" - was carried out in a few weeks. I didn't try to hide problems, so time can be perceived as a symbolic presence in the picture.</span><br />
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</div>Titor. Digital illustration on Hahnem<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">u</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">le.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Which</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">aspect</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">your job</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You Most</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">like to</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">face</span></span></span><span class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">?</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Which</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">not?</span></span></span></b></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The visual and the communicative aspect of a work can't be bypassed; it may happen to have more aptitude for one or sympathy for each other, but it is necessary to reconcile both of them. Rules are necessary. It's very interesting noting that in the 16th century, the so called Arte dell' Impresa developed in Italy. At the beginning of Renaissance, with the diffusion of printing, typographic logos became very popular in Europe. But in Italy they assumed a more esoteric character, such as a sort of secret language. The 'Impresa' (usually a coat of arms accompanied by a sentence) had its own rules: there</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> was a 'body' (the image) and a 'soul' (the motto). The latter had to be as light as possible: the perfect Impresa needed few words. The myth of 'Agalmatografo ille aphonos' (i.e. silent manufacturer of pictures) was born in this way. I like this definition of the painter such as a speechless poet: I think that a work must be designed to be immediately</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">understood by the beholder and the author should explain it only occasionally. </span></span></span></div><br />
<div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In the picture 'Vita nova' (made for the magazine 'L'Espresso', for the 150 anniversary of the Unification of Italy) a young Beatrice is suspended on an empty tomb and invites to the silence, with her finger resting on the lips. She remember us that words are not required to make the soul of a people lighter.</span></span></div><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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Vita Nova. 40 x 50cm. ed. of<br />
5. Digital illustration on Hahnem<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">u</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">le.</span>Available at Dorothy<br />
Circus Gallery, Rome.</span></span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>What do you</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>hope</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>to</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>accomplish</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>in the</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>next</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>five</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>years</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> </b></span></span><span class="hps"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>of your life</b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>?</b></span></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Five years ago I asked myself the same question, and I can say that I'm satisfied, comparing my answers with the present day. It simply happens!</span></span></div><br />
<div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you believe in your work, you can create affinities that bring to a realization. For the next five years, instead, I'd like to go beyond my personal working success, towards more vital goals: something like "merry marriages" and fruitful collaborations.</span></span></div></div><br />
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</tbody> </table>Aviator. 35 x 70 cm. ed. of 50. Digital illustration<br />
on Hahnem<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">u</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">le.</span>Available at Dorothy<br />
Circus Gallery, Rome.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="hps" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Sources of</span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">inspiration</span></b></span></span><span class=""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">.</span></b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></b></span></span><span class="hps atn"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">(</span></b></span></span></span><span class=""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">movies</span></b></span></span></span><span class=""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">,</span></b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">books</span></b></span></span><span class=""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">, music</span></b></span></span></span><span class=""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">,</span></b></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">artists</span></b></span></span><span class=""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">, etc.</span></b></span></span></span><span class=""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">.</span></b></span></span></span><span class=""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">)</span></b></span></span></span><span class=""><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">.</span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">The world is rich in all we need. Perhaps, it can be so rich that make it difficult to know how to manage your own inspiration. Is it better creating a self-containeduniverse or inspiring to models?</span></span></b></span><br />
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<div style="font: 16.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">I remember a funny cartoon character to which I was very fond... Mio Mao (Felix the cat, in the US). In his early comic stripes, he appeared as a slim and vagabond cat: his adventures were set in lean and surreal places, and he interacted with stupid animals and stupid people, on which he is </span></span>able to prevail. When the first author of the comics died, a second one <span class="Apple-style-span">succeeded him: Mio Mao's temperament changed. Moreover, </span>scenes became more complex and the cat seemed less smart, more puffy and <span class="Apple-style-span">inclined in the contact with man, almost in search of masters or home. The </span>name of the two cartoonists was the same: Pat Sullivan. I find that this <span class="Apple-style-span">coincidence is magical! It's amusing that Mio </span>Mao's two lives taught me to manage my inspiration: <span class="Apple-style-span">sometimes I feel like the earlier Mio Mao, sometimes I am closer to the </span>last one. And it's funny thinking that the cats are said <span class="Apple-style-span">to have nine lives...</span></span></div><br />
<div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">What are you currently working on? </span></b><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Preparatory drawings.</span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><b>One reason you make art.<span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">I can't find a reason not to make it.</span></div></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150214877848692.330759.89359248691&type=1">Visit Guido's album on TISCO</a></span></span></span></div><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-7901017001978725642011-06-10T18:18:00.020+02:002012-01-24T16:08:09.160+01:00A Trip to a State of Mind Through a Drawing, the colored pencils of Marco MazzoniMarco Mazzoni was born in 1982 in Tortona (AL), Italy. He lives and mainly works in Milano yet his colored pencils are worldwide admired. He's a prolific artist and each new work is way better that the previous one. How is it possible? Here's what he told us.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Less Than Zero. Colored pencils on paper. cm 30x30. 2011.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>Marco, looking at your artworks we can clearly see that there's a kind of fil rouge because of the choice of your subjects and the way you represent them. </b><br />
<b>Is there any reason why you focus on faces mostly surrounded by flowers, butterflies and birds that sometimes appear almost like hallucinations?</b><br />
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The starting point of all my works are the mystical, the women and their knowledge about the power of nature. My drawings speak about the story of the "Witches", women that for they ability were killed.<br />
The flowers that i represent are medicinal plants, some of them such as "datura" (or stramonium) are hallucinogenic plants.<br />
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<b>Each piece of your work looks extremely powerful and delicate at the same moment. We can't see what your characters are thinking of or what they're doing, neither where they are. Thought we can imagine it. What's the dimension in which they seem to be trapped? </b><br />
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Dreams dimension, of pleasure.<br />
I wish you could see the still image of the exactly moment when the human being meets the other elements of nature in a merger where all the subjects becomes a single element. Indeed, the light is one and central. It should be ecstasy, the moment in which you forget to be something and become part of everything.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The End of the Golden Age. Colored pencils on paper. cm 30x30. 2011.</td></tr>
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It's a daily work. I studied the techniques of veiling oil, and tried to bring them back to pencils. In practical i work as a painter of the XVII century without the drying times. Each color on the sheet is the result of, at least, six or seven different steps of colored pencils.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Medusa. Colored pencils on paper. cm 25x30. 2011.</td></tr>
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<b>Are you currently having an exhibition or working for an upcoming one? </b><br />
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I'm taking part to "The Emergence of Pop Imagist" in Venice. It's a group exhibition born from the collaboration of two galleries i work with: Jonathan LeVine Gallery and Giovanni Bonelli.<br />
At the moment, in my studio, i'm working on "XtsY": my solo show at Gallery B15 (Copenhagen), coming on November.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How to Survive the Apocalypse. Colored pencils on paper. cm 55x45. 2011. </td></tr>
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<b>The last show you took part in and you love the most. </b><br />
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I always thing that the best show will be the next.<br />
During the last years i've had the satisfaction to exhibit along with Andrew Hem, Lori Field, Nicola Verlato, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Marta Sesana... artist that i love. To know them is more important than a single show.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Huitzopochti. Colored pencils on paper. cm 25x25. 2011.</td></tr>
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<b>Artists of all the time that inspire your art. </b><br />
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I loved Ribeira, his colors, his light and his dark... I've been studying him for a long time...<br />
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<b>Where is your art available to purchase? </b><br />
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The galleries i'm working with are: <a href="http://www.bonelliarte.com/">Bonelli ArteContemporanea</a> (MN) Italy, <a href="http://www.jonathanlevinegallery.com/">Jonathan LeVine Gallery</a> in NY and <a href="http://www.galleryb15.dk/">Gallery B15</a>, Copenhagen.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Janas. Colored pencils on paper. cm 30x30. 2011.</td></tr>
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<b>How much - from 1 to 10 - does the mood counts for you while you are drawing? </b><br />
1 while i'm drawing. 10 when i read the books i take inspiration from.<br />
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<b>Who's the contemporary Italian living artist that you esteem the most? </b><br />
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There are many. I love artists that talk with a world language but keep the roots... that's why i'd say the work of Nicola Samorì, Nicola Verlato, Fulvio di Piazza, BLU and Ericailcane.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marja Morèvna. Colored pencils on paper. cm 30x25. 2011.</td></tr>
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</span></span><b>Would you be so kind to leave a message to TISCO readers?</b><br />
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Any truism of Jenny Holzer is more powerful that my messages. I'm not able to use words, i speal through colored pencils.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Awabuku. Colored pencils on paper. cm 25x30. 2011.</td></tr>
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See the <a href="http://marcomazzoni.tumblr.com/">Portfolio</a>.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Milano, Italia45.463681 9.188171399999987445.389062 9.0536043999999869 45.5383 9.322738399999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-72430685152926065202011-05-21T18:46:00.014+02:002012-01-24T16:09:04.065+01:00The Beauty seen by Guim TióGuim Tió was born in 1987 in Spain where he currently lives and mainly works. I recently commissioned him a painting and interviewed him for TISCO, here's what he told me.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evita: a work that has been recently shown at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=177430678973432">Body Snatchers</a>, an exhibition powered by Nereida Production</td></tr>
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<b>Guim, considering that you're only 24 and you already have your very own style of painting, would you like to tell me how did you approach to the main features - circled eyes wide open, long necks, colored noses - of your characters? </b><br />
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Yeah, of course. I've been using colored noses since the beginning, it really helps me when the color spreads in the work. The eyes and neck are features that attempt to highlight the expression or no expression of my characters, sometimes a major weakness.<br />
I guess that little by little it became my style without any forcing on it.<br />
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<b>What are your sources of inspiration? </b><br />
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Basquiat's works as those by Kokoschka and Nolde helped me a lot but i feel closer to contemporary artists. Nowadays there're a lot of good artists showing their work online and that's awesome! For example, the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/THIS-IS-SO-CONTEMPORARY/89359248691">TISCO </a>page on facebook makes a brilliant selection of artists that can inspire me, that's why i spend a lot of time surfing!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ginger. 95 x 95 cm, 2011.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>The past exhibition you enjoyed the most.</b><br />
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Germaine exposure Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse at MoMA, incredible!<br />
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<b>Tell us about your technique of painting which it seems to be not only limited to traditional brushes affair but more to a kind of collage and Photoshop usage that in a way, helps you to transmit your personal vision of beauty.</b><br />
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I work directly on the fashion magazines and with models. I speak about them with my paintings and i revisit the concept of beauty that magazines sell us creating new characters.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Silas, 95 x 95 cm, 2011.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>What's beauty for you and how do you reflects it on your characters? </b><br />
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The beauty for me is beautiful, whatever may be the way in which it's manifested. Besides, i believe that beauty is very subjective, i show a beauty with my characters that hits the fashion world ...<br />
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<b>Is there any upcoming show for you? </b><br />
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I've just had a group exhibition with Conrad Roset, Amaia Arrazola and Mary Diamond at <a href="http://www.tiposinfames.com/">Tipos Infames</a>, Madrid. Moreover, on September i'll show my work at <a href="http://www.artevistas.com/">Artevistas Gallery</a> in Barcelona!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Balcanic Girl, 2010.<br />
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</tbody></table><b>You have a shop online where people can buy originals and limited edition prints. What's your first cyber market? </b><br />
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Well, in Spain i sell through the exhibitions but my first cyber market after the spanish one is Italy and France followed by U.K., America and Germany.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Untitled #7, 2010.</td></tr>
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<b>You're a contributor of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/THIS-IS-SO-CONTEMPORARY/89359248691">TISCO</a> and yours is one of the most rated and visited album among our collaborators. People are very intrigued by your work. Would you like to leave them a message?</b><br />
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I really appreciate very much "like" or comments on Facebook and people mail me a lot. Thank you all.<br />
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<b>One of your objectives for 2011. </b><br />
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Throw me a plane (with parachute).<br />
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<b>Blog: </b><br />
<a href="http://www.guimtio.blogspot.com/">http://www.guimtio.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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<b>Guim's album on TISCO</b>:<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.469364488691.262081.89359248691">http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.469364488691.262081.89359248691</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-76136396684902702742011-03-30T15:43:00.015+02:002012-01-24T16:16:14.737+01:00Arnaud Pagès, the Free Figuration Kid<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Arnaud Pagès is a french illustrator based in Paris. Class 1971, his work is pretty inlfuenced by pop art and street-art and the massive use of fluorescent colors reminds us of the 80s. However, his début as a painter dates back to 90s.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxvGQIroe7JBaXFLHczwuL3qo-US_ZAQ6ml5IYkwNBAqD3bebrLaF71UdPvrL_5MzGR_hILozN7SAEQQfWPq9EoPisbskifiLTNRpyZ_U0Qxx2w50o8RwWn7i5zL9vYRzQq5JpPXODnKU/s1600/MAO++Traditional+drawing+colorized+with+Photoshop+-++2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxvGQIroe7JBaXFLHczwuL3qo-US_ZAQ6ml5IYkwNBAqD3bebrLaF71UdPvrL_5MzGR_hILozN7SAEQQfWPq9EoPisbskifiLTNRpyZ_U0Qxx2w50o8RwWn7i5zL9vYRzQq5JpPXODnKU/s640/MAO++Traditional+drawing+colorized+with+Photoshop+-++2011.jpg" width="531" /></a></td></tr>
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hi Arnaud, you defined your work as a ‘cultural crossover’. What do you mean with this?</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">As a painter, i’ve been influenced by a lot of things. Music, movies, fashion, graffiti, classic paintings, modern paintings, tribal paintings, street-art, books, magazines, comics, cartoons, advertisings etc… And i guess that all these influences have shaped the way i’m making art. I have respect and admiraton for painters who died 400 years ago as much as for graffiti artists. So when i say « cultural crossover » i mean that my art is made of all these elements. It’s not only street art or pop art. It’s much more than this.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b>Artists (of all the times) you admire.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b>Who are the main characters of your work?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">I don’t have specific characters… I prefer to make exhibitions that are telling stories… Like what i did with the « Fifteen Most Corrupted project » . It was an exhibition about the fifteen guys the most corrupted of the 20th century, as Nixon or Mobutu. It’s much more the idea or the concept that i use to create my artworks.</span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b>How much importance do you give to shape, space and colors in your artworks? </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b>What’s the Figuration Libre and why do you define yourself a ‘free figuration kid’ ?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Free figuration, also called "Figuration Libre" has been very important for me and for a lot painters from the 90's generation. It's a real mix beetween classical influences, pop art, graffiti, rock'n'roll, comics... It was created by guys like Haring, Basquiat or Ben. It's a link between pop art and graffiti art, and it's really the next episode of the pop art adventure. In France, we have Combas and Di Rosa. They are great painters. So, as i say i'm a free figuration kid. Cause i've been deeply influenced by all these great painters.</span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b>Something you do when you’re procrastinating?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">I do my best for never procrastinating. Cause as i’m always very busy on several projects at the same time, so when i’m late on one project, it makes me late on all the others ! Sometimes i’m too tired to make good work, so i make a break, sleep a few, drink cofee and eat something. And when i feel it’s ok i go back working hard.</span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b>Which International art galleries have you exhibited your work at? </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">I’ve been showing my work in Hong Kong at G999 gallery and Kapok gallery. And also in London at the OFR gallery. But i’ve been mostly exhibiting my work in France. Of course, i would love making more exhibitions outside of my country.</span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Léo Castelli ! Definitively, the most influent curator of the 20th century !</span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><b>One reason you make art. </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Because it's my life. It's not a job, not a passion, not a way to make my name famous, it's just my life. It's just me. I'm a natural born painter !</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">And it’s really like a drug. I can’t live without painting or draiwing.</span><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman;"><b>What are you working on right now?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Actualy i'm working on my next collaboration with the french brand Kulte. The "Eighties Kid Academy" will be released in june. Stay tuned. More projects are arriving from now until the end of the year… And i've launched "Art to Sell" : it’s my « limited editions » project. Feel free to check the website. You can buy a limited edition eaven if you’re not in France. All are numereoted and signed and very exclusive. There’s just a few number of copy for each drawing. </span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Luca, let’s talk about your cultural background. You’re involved in performing media, videomaking machinimas and procedural art. How did you approach to the metaverse world and especially to this kind of art?</span></b></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I’ve spent my younghood keeping my traditional art separated from my geek intentions. It was a bad effort playin’ the hopping game. I could not find anything good enough from the union of two things. I continued to study interface programming at high-school during the day and drawing fiction in the night: my family got a long tradition in paintings, i loved pop art and surrealism. </span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the years i felt in love with movies. Peter Greenaway’s ‘’Prospero’s Book’’ based over Shakespeare’. The Fellini’s ‘’Casanova’’, and cult like ‘’Barbarella’’ started something, but ‘’Tron’’ was the true blast to me. After high-school i went to university, i studied Architecture and Industrial design: computers grew as i grew. As soon as i got into art direction for advertising and entertainment industry I begun using computer to make images, i liked the idea of ‘performing portraits’, instead of statics, using code to give images a life of their own: as i discovered just later, the two things i could not unite came as one at last. Was in 2006 when i crossed 3D online world like Second Life, it was the begininnig of the story. I came then into virtual art, that means full convergence of all my tools and visions together.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Voom Hotel is a transmedia art project made of a certain number of linked virtual locations. There are Rooms, Halls, Hallways, Gardens, Facilities distribuited over different media. Every location got its own guest, </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">customers of the Voom Hotel”. What’s the objective of this project?</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Let me go where my inner selves are. I need to build a representation, i need to get them out to get me free. The Voom Hotel is not built by bricks nor by pixel or bytes, but can be represented by bricks , pixels, bytes as digital image, poetry, video, painting, music. I can use whatever i got in my hands to give it a way to be perceived. I can use computer, metaverses, even performances, theatre, videos, poetry. </span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7WxvDgA6myyES7evqXqAe_nFF8vcpASc-r7_sCJ6dIZ6hiY_t1RaMzR6orwO8nfA0rI0R_HX7EQe4ntjAEatfnx-hW2Un-E1hr7tqELaCb141-DzMTZ01x6sUN8t-Yd0r1v_tjApjyO4/s1600/180345_1562234860591_1376912332_31267277_6447857_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7WxvDgA6myyES7evqXqAe_nFF8vcpASc-r7_sCJ6dIZ6hiY_t1RaMzR6orwO8nfA0rI0R_HX7EQe4ntjAEatfnx-hW2Un-E1hr7tqELaCb141-DzMTZ01x6sUN8t-Yd0r1v_tjApjyO4/s640/180345_1562234860591_1376912332_31267277_6447857_n.jpg" width="480" /></span></span></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Check out the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Voom%20Hotel/23/200/1000/?title=Voom+Hotel">Voom Hotel SLURL</a></span><a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Voom%20Hotel/23/200/1000/?title=Voom+Hotel"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At how many levels of immersion can you enjoy Voom Hotel?</span></span></b></span></span></b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1551394676"><br />
</a> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">People can enjoy the Voom Hotel the way they like the most. </span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Are you passive? Just grab a seat to follow one of the Voom Hotel’s residents: you can see videos about the stories of Mr. Meta Lexico and Ms. Yizhou Flow, you can follow Twitter to listen ‘the hallways’ rumors. You can even follow the drama of Wing Fallen’s rock music, or share the Facebook company page. </span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Are you interested in taking part? Just ask: Mr. Voom may rent you a room at the hotel.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1551394676"><br />
</a> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1551394676"> </a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1551394676"> </a></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So you have a section on your site dedicated to Guests and Rooms, Leisure Areas and Service Areas: tell us about the structure of Voom Hotel. How did you plan it? Is it an evolving architecture or not?</span></span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Voom hotel is living architecture since the building is made out of pure imagination. As a living creature it eats, digests and shits, it ages. </span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Every space of it represents a corner of the living mindscape i am. Rooms are extentions of guests: guests are point of convergence of memories, imaginations, sensations. Leisure areas like Zhong’s Tunnel of Love and Icon String’s Hi-Score Park are statements defining the ‘’innatural’’ laws my imaginations is set up with. Service Areas like Lush’s Laundry Hall are zones of my obsessions.</span></span></div></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/khDKLwq2zok?fs=1" width="400"></iframe><br />
<div align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Virtual Art Performance. Varios Jugadores shaping a single digital scultura di carne virtuale dans le jardin d'hiver.</span></div><br />
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</a> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1551394680"> </a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1551394680"> </a></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1551394680"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></a></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Is there any reason to experience Voom Hotel?</span></span></b><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">You don’t have to have any reason to experience Voom Hotel.</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1551394680"><br />
</a> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1551394680"> </a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How much interest there’s in real world around transmedia art and how it is expressed?</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Trans-media storytelling is the way we live today, it’s our perception of reality. Just one plain example: the riots in maghreb are here with you, still you are very far from there. You are into those events by simultaneous feeding among different media streams. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Blogs.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You have the whole scenario by putting togheter different kind of media, every one giving you a very different way to experience that fact.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1551394680"><br />
</a> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1551394680"> </a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1551394680"> </a></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tell us about one of the latest initatives by Voom Hotel.</span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Voom Hotel Laundry hall performed rencently in the Second Life: about 80 people shared their avatars in a huge washing machine. At the end of the washing process they felt really clean, Mr. Luqh Lusch, the chief officer of the laundry services is an anthropomorphic pink rabbit. He’s a bit a maniac but very efficient. The performance has been purchased by the MiC, the museum’s network of the city of Rome.</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Voom%20Hotel/23/200/1000/?title=Voom+Hotel"><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Are your artworks for sale?</span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes they are. Voom Hotel is a big resort and very expensive to maintain. So digital frames of guests and events are for sale, but we are almost ready to launch a new line of art products, i’ll tell you. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Please also let me mention our primary venue, the room rental.</span></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What are you working on right now? Is there any preview for us about Voom Hotel’s project?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We are now finally closing the recording session of Wing Fallen’s album: Loud in Silence. </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As you may know Wing was on trial, accused of multiple murder. He has has been confined in a special section of Voom Hotel, under a rehab program leaded by Mr. Voom. Wing is a rocker, and the project means to renew his sociability through the recovery of his identity as an artist. The process is quite challenging but i think we finally reach our final goal by this spring.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Links:</span></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/lucalisci"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Luca Lisci on YouTube</span></span></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.fluidside.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">FluidSIDE The Virtual Art diaries</span></span></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://voomhotel.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">voomhotel.com</span></span></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You can buy original Voom Hotel artworks via </span></span><a href="http://www.smartarea.it/en/Works/digital_art/digital-art-by-Luca-Lisci/digital-art-by-Luca-Lisci_0_506.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">SMARTAREA art gallery</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span></span></div></div></td></tr>
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<div align="center">Glamour Iberiko. <br />
Serie en proceso ( toreros,gitanas,goyescas,meninas....) 2010/2011.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Hi Emmanuel, now you live and work in Malaga, Spain but in 2001 you've been to USA. There you worked for Annie Wharton at the Art Centre South Florida (Miami) and at the same time you painted for Dorsch Gallery. <br />
What are your best memories about that period? </span><br />
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Hi D! Let's see... It was a very exciting period for me... I can remember everything i lived with a special feeling. <br />
I was only 20 and looking for adventures! People, situations, jobs... everything sounds cool to me! Besides, i met Annie like a coincidence, working with her was one of the best experience ever. I learned a lot of things and time ran so fast that now i see that passing through my mind like a movie. If i have to choose, people who helped me out is the best memory i have. I met special persons who are still very good friends of mine! (Jen i love you, sweetcake!!!).<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. What's M.A.C. project?</span><br />
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M.A.C. means "Malaga Contemporary Artists". It was a project that pretended to join contemporary artists in this city in order to organize different events (exhibitions, open studios, cultural exchanges, etc.). The most important thing we did was "The Art Route" we imported the idea of opening many artist's studios from town to people... so they could visit us and see how we usually work. We organized performances, little concerts and other attractions also which helped to promote cultural tourism in Malaga. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. How this idea came to you and your cofounder Steven Wanzell?</span> <br />
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Well, as i first told you the idea was imported from other cities by Steve! I met him, he told me and i get involved into it. Together we looked for more artists who wanted to join the project! This utopian dream sadly ends because too many people tried to impose their own ideas and the group broke up. Likely i keep on the friendship with many artists from that time!<br />
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<div align="center">Mi Aporte Pal Sketchbook Project (Inglaterra). 2010.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. How much do you love your city?</span> <br />
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Maybe you can make an idea of my love for this city if i tell you that i was born in Argentina but my heart belongs to Malaga!<br />
Here i found my place in the world, i found love and i found my "elected family"! It's a quite and relaxing city and these days is growing in a cultural way, which is fantastic!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Which event created by M.A.C. have most people responded to and why? </span><br />
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The Art Route of course!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Are nowadays artists open to these kind of initiatives?</span><br />
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Absolutely yes! I've my own theory: before this world economical crisis started, many people who aspired to be artists (in the cool meaning of artist), tried to move to New York, London, Berlin and all these important cities to see and learn things. Nowadays, people have not enough money! Lot of those artists have to stay at home BUT as we need to express our ideas anyway, most of us are very opened to new initiatives and to work hand in hand!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. How does the city can englobe art and viceversa harmonically? </span><br />
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This question is hard to answer, maybe you should ask to politicians! (smile)<br />
My opinion is that the concept of art is changing. Art used to be elitist but now i believe on the idea of "Art For Everybody" so cities have to open different channels where art can get all kind of public: Art from the city to the city.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Who are some artists that influence you?</span> <br />
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Wow! I could stay here the whole night answering you!<br />
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Some names: Goya, Schiele, Escher, Warhol, BLU, Banksy, Michele Guidarini, Ientile, Pepa Prieto, Gary Baseman, Burgerman, tim Biskup, Mirimari Vayrynen, David Setter... and more!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. How has the internet helped you with your career?</span><br />
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Is for sure the best way to contact people from everywhere! Is one of the main channel i use for working: draw, scan, send by mail and sell!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Any tips or advice you'd give to artists just starting out?</span><br />
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I don't know, my three main columns to work are persistance, integrity and enjoyment!<br />
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<a href="http://emmanuellafont.com/">Emmanuel Official website</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/EMMANUEL-LAFONT/111128815594550">Emmanuel Lafont on facebook</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-89551202486879951092010-11-30T17:06:00.015+01:002012-01-24T20:30:10.558+01:00Duilio Scalici<script src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js" type="text/javascript">
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Hi Duilio, where are you from?</span><br />
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Hi! I am from Palermo, Italy. <br />
This is not a city of violence as TG says, i think this is one of the most beautiful city of the world!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. One reason you make art.</span><br />
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I simply can't - don't do it, i'd feel sick.<br />
It' so natural to me, and many times i don't start from a concept or an idea but i start from a white sheet, and when i took the pencil, i draw lines that slowly become the final subject of the work. <br />
The same thing is for the videoclip i make, i never write a script, i just start from a image that i have in my mind; filming this image with my camera, i continue the clip with improvisation. <br />
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<div align="center">L'umanità non sopporta "l'umanità", acrylic on canvas. cm 120x100<br />
2010</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. When did you start working as director?</span><br />
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I started about 13 y.o. making little clips in stop-motion and claymation. <br />
My first musical videoclip was just an attempt, made with the band Troublemakers in the 2010. Then the musician The Loves contacted me because he wanted to create the original music for my first clip, "Dream Town".<br />
After this collaboration, me and The loves made a new video "Nothing is real"; after this one i started to collaborate with many musicians like Bologna Violenta, Simona Gretchen, The Barbacans, Nut, Gli Ebrei, Chester Gorilla, ecc ecc.<br />
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<div align="center"><object height="320" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10467965&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10467965&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="320"></embed></object></div><div align="center">Video of the song Dream Town by The Loves, 2010.</div><br />
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<div align="center"><object height="225" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10552578&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10552578&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object></div><div align="center">Videoclip of Nothing Is Real by The Loves, 2010.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Tell us about your work. You're involved in so many things.</span><br />
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In addition to painting and making videoclip, i started a new way: producer.<br />
With Marco Gargiulo we opened the label Sinusite Records, because i love to find and promote new musicians. I love music, this is why i make MUSICAL videoclips.<br />
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Sinusite Records Official Site: <a href="http://sinusiterecords.jimdo.com/">http://sinusiterecords.jimdo.com/</a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. You were born in 1994. Have you ever had problem in your work because of your young age? </span><br />
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Yes. Not big problems, but sometimes i can't partecipate to some contests because maybe people don't think that i am good when they know my young age. <br />
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<div align="center"><object height="300" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11420878&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11420878&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object></div><div align="center">Videoclip of El Grindo by Bologna Violenta, 2010.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. You're a painter also. How much is important painting for you?</span><br />
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As i told, this is really really important drawing and painting for me. Every time i complete a painting i feel happy, and when people buy one of my works, this separation it's hard for me! <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnjrg9JfGVwnZafLnUWOunW62ALgHwgL7mdWirLFatL_xn1NALHhxh8fSi4TjwqyVpawN1QTUOaZcgvkrHe-ttzdy_mtK4Z-BS6su0e1PuzrgK3XM11UrCu4I69F1-nLiNbPy2PRmvUcg/s1600/74100_453699923691_89359248691_5605113_3242573_n.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545380637112938066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnjrg9JfGVwnZafLnUWOunW62ALgHwgL7mdWirLFatL_xn1NALHhxh8fSi4TjwqyVpawN1QTUOaZcgvkrHe-ttzdy_mtK4Z-BS6su0e1PuzrgK3XM11UrCu4I69F1-nLiNbPy2PRmvUcg/s640/74100_453699923691_89359248691_5605113_3242573_n.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="455" /></a><br />
<div align="center">Magnanimo, acrylic on canvans, cm 100x70 2010</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Favorite band ever.</span><br />
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Radiohead.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Favorite band now.</span><br />
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Nut and Il Teatro degli Orrori.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. What do you think about the italian music today? I'm asking you because you're in deep contact with many bands as you direct and product music also. </span><br />
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I think that there is a lot of beautiful italian contemporary music but if you want to listen it, you can't wait to see and listen to them in the radio or the tv, you have to look for them, and the best way to do this is certainly the internet.<br />
There are many bands, without any label, that should be the "flag" of italian music in the world, not people like Emma or Marco Carta..................<br />
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<div align="center"><object height="225" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13029053&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13029053&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object></div><div align="center">Videoclip of Blow Me by Chester Gorilla, 2010.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Do you make music on your own?</span><br />
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Maybe.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. You've been recently engaged by EMI Records. Tell us your first impressions.</span><br />
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SUPER-EMOTIONED! I was really happy, at my young age is just SUPER!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbACwGqkVBToirzXxwT0XaVaIFtXJxoBgnyUoqrzpKSVMy6QUzjhiYfTuaRTgoMBA1gYmNYhOZh4_lkC9TlT6fKjRRpk1nPS74BUguFH2U2sl4GY_v58yBk90Ipqh9fCRQ75mRY9xQdkk/s1600/76086_163944150308918_131830893520244_256261_2991062_n.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="330" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5545382932295917090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbACwGqkVBToirzXxwT0XaVaIFtXJxoBgnyUoqrzpKSVMy6QUzjhiYfTuaRTgoMBA1gYmNYhOZh4_lkC9TlT6fKjRRpk1nPS74BUguFH2U2sl4GY_v58yBk90Ipqh9fCRQ75mRY9xQdkk/s640/76086_163944150308918_131830893520244_256261_2991062_n.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><br />
<div align="center">A frame from the set for the EMI Music Video.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. What's the evil of the century? </span><br />
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The TV and the Church. They make ignorance.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. You've been criticized by many people for your video "Trapianti Giapponesi" by the italian band Bologna Violenta. <br />
What do you want to say about it?</span><br />
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As someone said in a review of this video, i don't think that is a violent thing to show, when in the TV death and the worst thing are daily showned. I think instead that Trapianti Giapponesi is an ironic video. <br />
This was the most funny video to make. Every time i see the dead penis i laugh a lot!<br />
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<div align="center"><object height="300" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13482928&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13482928&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object></div><div align="center">Videoclip of Trapianti Giapponesi by Bologna Violenta, 2010.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. You're travelling a lot these days, what are you currently working on? </span><br />
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I just returned from MEI because my video for The Barbacans, "Time for the Choice" was nomined between about 400 videos for the best italian videoclips.<br />
I currently work for the EMI video, a clip for Jessica Brando.<br />
I am also preparing a new video for Bologna Violenta and other videos for other musicians.<br />
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<div align="center"><object height="225" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14878889&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14878889&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object></div><div align="center">Videoclip of Time For Choice by The Barbacans, 2010.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. You started a collaboration with TisCo! about a month ago. What's your wish for TisCo! ? </span><br />
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I wish that TisCo will be also an artistic movement, because this is an initiative that i estimate so much.<br />
Thanks for this interview!<br />
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<div align="center"><object height="225" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=15685857&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=15685857&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object></div><div align="center">Videoclip of Fockus by Simona Gretchen, 2010.</div><br />
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<div align="center">Le voyageur, 55 x 46 cm, huile sur bois.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Hi Corine, can you remember the first time you approached to art?<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><br />
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Hi Daniela. I don’t remember any specific instance in my life that made me approach to art. Since I was child, I enjoyed drawing during my free time . I have always appreciated things that looked artistic. When I studied in Art School, I never felt this like “work”, but just something I always felt to do.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. You know many secrets of paintings because you started as restorer. How much this experience enriched you? <span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><br />
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To look at the work of masters and to know the process of painting is unique and exciting! <br />
I have a lot of respect for the old techniques and old masters style. I paint in oil on wood panels in thin layers, and I like spend time on paintings. Restoration learned me to be subtle and patient.<br />
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<div align="center">L'enchanteur, 55 x46 cm, huile sur bois.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. When did you start painting animals? </span><br />
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It was a slow process. <br />
At first, there were characters with my animals, then they naturally have disappeared as and when my animals became “creatures”. They have always existed in my imagination, now they live by themselves in my paintings.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-7Wmh27E8GW16KyS0UySrXB1paUunifWfjqZo6isDGV25fA_xwFC4zju-JKwGqtfexbXGKkAnVMqrJGVMHtkb3GxCOi3u1-AF8-RyeWUv5JrpmbQHziHfXZ93zQC4qlxL84-sod8FotE/s1600/26914_110306352341168_100000854109478_73803_4398377_n.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543814783783105874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-7Wmh27E8GW16KyS0UySrXB1paUunifWfjqZo6isDGV25fA_xwFC4zju-JKwGqtfexbXGKkAnVMqrJGVMHtkb3GxCOi3u1-AF8-RyeWUv5JrpmbQHziHfXZ93zQC4qlxL84-sod8FotE/s1600/26914_110306352341168_100000854109478_73803_4398377_n.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
<div align="center">Dans les nuages, 55 x 46 cm, huile sur bois.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. What does fascinate you that much of animals?</span> <br />
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I love using animals in my paintings! Animals are universal, they have been used in stories and paintings since the beginning of times. So many things are fascinating in wildlife! <br />
I also like painting all of animal textures: fur, feathers, shine… It’s a real pleasure.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Your favorite animal.</span><br />
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I think it’s one I have not yet painted… Seriously, I love all furry animals, and specially the birds, that are present in almost all my paintings.<br />
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<div align="center">Chat perché, 55 x 46 cm, huile sur bois.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. What's the most contemporary feature in your paintings?</span><br />
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I approach the contemporary problem of the disappearance of species on a planet in flux. It’s my personal response to many disturbing issues of the world. I feel the need to process this through my paintings.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Would you define your art as surreal?</span> <br />
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I don’t think my art is overtly surreal. It’s more like traditional painting with a touch of surreal and strangeness through the presence of my creatures.<br />
I continually explore my individual world, and try to have a style that is my own.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY76GTT_d9Bjx4dnC-FSY25xHfw2i_SrnZSIqsTgvWoSCqB134tPOPZT8GFfrOXHFHC6dRJlh7F2ZHG9BOklu8sjkjUW2P5ovUPRtor4c0E2Lj6MyL-JliLsW5XqHklOLFyRdejDVWLXA/s1600/24244_100407579997712_100000854109478_9197_4623455_n.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5543816296230695138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY76GTT_d9Bjx4dnC-FSY25xHfw2i_SrnZSIqsTgvWoSCqB134tPOPZT8GFfrOXHFHC6dRJlh7F2ZHG9BOklu8sjkjUW2P5ovUPRtor4c0E2Lj6MyL-JliLsW5XqHklOLFyRdejDVWLXA/s1600/24244_100407579997712_100000854109478_9197_4623455_n.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
<div align="center">Contre nature, 70 x 70 cm, huile sur toile.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Are you currently exhibiting somewhere?</span> <br />
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I’m preparing a solo show, in March 2011 at the Galerie Montmartre, (located at the Place du Tertre in Paris), that represents currently my art. It’s looking very exciting for me. I’ve got about 15 new pieces for that show.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. What message would you like to leave to our readers?</span><br />
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I’m really happy to be able to do what I’m doing. So, I would like to thank everyone who has taken interest in my paintings, and has pleasure to own them.<br />
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<a href="http://www.corine-perier.com/">Corine Perier site</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-55542284528316156592010-11-19T14:13:00.040+01:002012-01-24T20:34:27.966+01:00Phil L'animalPhil L'animal is a young canadian artist based in Montreal, QC.<br />
Let's know him through his words and latest works.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Hi Phil, why 'Phil L'animal'?</span><br />
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I wont tell you the true story, but I can imagine one if you want! <br />
When I was a little boy my dream was to become a tiger, at 10 I changed for the giraffe, but I was too small to be a giraffe, so I decided to become a beautiful fish, but I couldn't breathe under water… <br />
Finally I created a mix, a shuffle party of many animals, it gave me… The strangest animal…<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Can you remember your first illustration?</span><br />
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Yes, i was 12 years old. It wasn't really nice, just a stupid character… I did it with a big black pen, so all my lines were horrible! Oh! And I did my first painting at the age of 10, I received a painting kit for Christmas, I painted my first canvas on Christmas day, the concept was a mug in front of a windows, haha!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Things that inspires you.</span><br />
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Extraterrestrial, lips, eyes, women, men, body, the nature, religion, you and you and YOU! <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Colors or b/w.</span> <br />
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It depends on what I want! If I do an illustration, in general, it's gonna be b/w. <br />
On the contrary if i'm working on a canvas it's almost all the time colored!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. What's your strength?</span> <br />
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I guess I have a lot of creativity and I think you need that to be a good artist… It's logical! But for my work, I'm pretty good to do nice shadows especially in b/w.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Artists - of all the time - that you admire. </span><br />
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Dalì of course, it was a strange character, his life is a story, when you start to read about him you can't stop, it's so intriguing!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. You're friend with Dewey Thang Nguyen<br />
Tell us 3 things that you appreciate of his art.<br />
Interview to Duy</span><a href="http://walkingthroughart.blogspot.com/2010/09/dewey-thang-nguyen.html">http://walkingthroughart.blogspot.com/2010/09/dewey-thang-nguyen.html</a><br />
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First, Duy is one of my best friend, i knew him 7 years ago and i've seen the evolution of his art. That guy is amazing! <br />
1: He works peacefully.<br />
2: He is so precise. <br />
3: He put passion in everything he does.<br />
I love him, I like to work with him and my other artist friend Olivier Bonnard, we like to create together sometime, we're from the same city and we went at the same high school too, soon everybody will know them, I'm sure! <br />
I hope you'll know me too! haha!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. What projects are you working on right now?</span><br />
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I'm working now on many projects, but I don't really want tell you what it is, the only thing I can tell you it's one is about nature and the other one about sex. Other rise I did something for Le cirque du soleil as Duy, I can disclose what it is but you'll see in december! <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. The best thing ever happened to you. </span><br />
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Discover the paint and the travels.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. The best thing that could happen to you now.</span> <br />
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Just travel and do many exhibitions around the world! <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. 3 words you love.</span> <br />
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I'll tell you the words, but in french! Because it's not the same thing in english. Poutine, TABARNAK and giblote! <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. 1 word for TisCo! </span><br />
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A M A Z I N G, with many ING at the end!<br />
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<a href="http://philanimal.com/">Phil L'animal site</a><br />
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<a href="http://artistattack.canalblog.com/">Phil L'animal blog</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-21151355405275698652010-10-31T21:08:00.022+01:002012-01-24T20:36:07.677+01:00Michele Guidarini<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh44_PnEw_26ELAeu8Lp9FJbtcmgB11jyqgDbvTN5hvZRdJqKRG5hzwRGXPoYvk7G29zPqXw2aCq9SSf_WnKAUcK2VVZos85eqpTCDhfcNeex9LKJATDDolVoHWzAPAu9huQHNw1ZwaevY/s1600/so+long+marianne.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="523" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534356720255694658" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh44_PnEw_26ELAeu8Lp9FJbtcmgB11jyqgDbvTN5hvZRdJqKRG5hzwRGXPoYvk7G29zPqXw2aCq9SSf_WnKAUcK2VVZos85eqpTCDhfcNeex9LKJATDDolVoHWzAPAu9huQHNw1ZwaevY/s640/so+long+marianne.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><br />
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So long Marianne.</div><br />
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"I was born at the foot of the Amiata mountain, an uncontaminated land that has culturally stopped at the Middle Age like those places and buildings of which my town, Arcidosso, is made up. <br />
I immediately understood that i wanted to experience new things and so i started to study graphic design and became interested in the art issue.<br />
I went to the Florence Academy of Art, school of fine arts and there i found a schocking atmosphere full of contemporary protestants from 1968 that thought they could go out and be artists with a brush, a palette, and an handmade canvas, figuring nudes and landscapes! <br />
Likely i got in contact with the craziest teacher of the situation and i didn't touch a brush neither a color for four years; on the contrary i recut, i pasted, i photocopied and i drawn fast stretch of thoughts.<br />
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I migrated to Switzerland where i went on with my graphic work in a couple of well known studios in Lugano and San Gallo. <br />
I came back and after a while i set up a studio on my own with a room dedicated to my little art collection. <br />
I studied the communication for companies and institutions. In the meanwhile i went on with my love for art trying to get into the role of the artist in this mad world. <br />
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I Hate Pop Surrealism.</div><br />
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After being involved with low level galleries and events, i landed in Milano where i contributed with the Art NHow Hotel and the Rojo Gallery. After a series of exhibitions and pubblications on various mags, i entered the Mondo Bizzarro Gallery <a href="http://www.mondobizzarrogallery.com/home.asp">http://www.mondobizzarrogallery.com/</a> wherewith i'm working right now. <br />
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My dream? <br />
To bring my "babies" Adolf all around the world, they' re so sweet!". <br />
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Adolfo L'equilibrista.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Michele, if you could put a name on your style, what would you choose? </span><br />
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It's always been difficult for me to catalog my art. <br />
I'm explaining you why: my work comes from external and internal sensations that mix up and turn into ironic features of the daily classic living. <br />
I've always had big problems in expressing myself with words, using the verbal language... For this reason my work is a sort of logbook of personal thoughts that intertwine with my vision of the world. <br />
Anyway... i consider my work Pop for the using of quotes by celebrities that made the history; i consider myself a bit Urban Artist just for the stylistic aspect, the fast and direct stretch; sometimes i feel Surrealist because of the reality's distortion in shapes and figures; and Sacred because of the use of symbolism connected to religions. <br />
I would defined my art ad "Sacred Urban Trash Pop Surrealism". <br />
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Personal Jesus.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Few words to define your cultural background.</span><br />
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My cultural background is mainly based on my interest for history (i like to deepen and analyze how much is strong the influence left by cultures and dictatorships), revolutionary music movements from 70s-80s (especially the punk and anything related to it /image, music) and a pure interest for what Reinassance artists -painters and architectures- created and dedicated to a unique character that is supposed to be above us. <br />
This aspect fascinates me a lot, even if i don't believe in science fiction.<br />
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Joseph.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. When thinking of a piece, do you begin with the subject matter or the general color palette?</span> <br />
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Usually i don't start from any of these points, i just draw. After i placed my pen on the paper i start to understand what i want to do. Sometimes is the material itself that inspires me and let me express what i want. The "problem" is that i'm not only an artist, i'm a graphic designer also and so i just can't think about "what" to develop but i focuse myseld on "how" to do it. The balance of the composition, the colors combination and materials. <br />
For this reason there're several elements that make me concentrate on series of works and give them a sense. <br />
Plus, they don't rise with the artworks concept, on the contrary they come from my need of expressing myself; and i can do it on a table, on a bed, anywhere it happens, only later they assume their marks of identity to become art objects or whatever...<br />
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Summer 1943.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. What feeling would you like to elicit from your viewers?</span><br />
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Even if i'm fascinated my the artistic unexpressionism movement, i don't consider my art as trivial and with no sense. <br />
I always try to make people think while looking at my work. I put in my work symbols and icons taken from the mass culture delenished them from their original meaning, in a mix of meanings that go beyond stereotypes. <br />
For example, if you see a swastika drawn on a sacred ancient print, you have to wonder why i did it. <br />
To make a long story short, i want to hurt feelings of who is used to catalog periods and historical events, in an ironic way. <br />
I want to make understand how much this symbolisms emptied of their meaning, are the base of our current culture.<br />
I think that the world engine are religions and dictatorships but for many people it's not easy to accept it! That's why they can be disturbed by my art. <br />
You've got to take it easy to go on with this thought!<br />
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I Wanna Be a Star.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Describing yourself you use the italian word "lezzo". What it means?</span><br />
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The word "lezzo" comes from my local dialect and it's difficult to explain what it means!<br />
It's a physical and mental sensation almost of angry but not only. It contains into the word that general sense of anxiety like when you sleep bad and you wake up with the wrong moon, that you don't want to talk, you don't want to confront with what surround youand you got your face twisted by stresses!<br />
I often wake up this way or i become during the day; not because i slept bad but naturally!<br />
In those moments i'm annoying but at the same time i can be sweet and sensitive... only with people i care about!<br />
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Mad in Italy.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Something that money can't buy.</span><br />
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The past, memories and emotions of 5 seconds ago. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Something that money can buy. </span><br />
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Love, affection, friendships, new hair... everything prepackaged and at good price. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. How much do you feel italian? (in %)</span><br />
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I feel italian at 90% only when i'm abroad.<br />
When i'm in Italy i feel italian just because it is written on my I.C., i feel more filed than italian. So at 25%.<br />
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<div align="center">I am proud.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Tell us about ALTERAZIONI: music and visual arts festival.</span><br />
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ALTERAZIONI born from the idea of a group of people - inlcuding me for the visual arts section - that wanted to create a vanguard event behind the times in their own town, showing works of citizens from the main artistic capitals in Italy and Europe. <br />
Alterazioni is the first event in the province of Grosseto that managed to put together art, music and video performance into a unique box. <br />
It was hold in Arcidosso last july, 17. <br />
We succeeded in the intent of bringing to a little community in south Tuscany, that type of cultural contemporary that you can see only in big city events. <br />
There were a lot of costs and a lot of satisfaction also. <br />
The event was connoted by a very strong exhibition with 49 contemporary artists (most of them emerging) already knew into the italian and international artistic scene. Here are some names: Cristian Sonda, Hackatao, Selfish,Vacon Sartinani, Ivan Cazzola, Gabriele Galimberti, Emmanuel Gonzales Lafont, Marko Tadic, Massimiliano Pelletti, Pelin Santilli, Tommaso Guerra, Lapo Simeoni, etc. <br />
Above the exhibition, this event gave an opportunity to exponents of niche contemporary musical scene, to perform at the foot of the majestic castle located on the top of the town. <br />
The atmosphere was so surreal because of the combination of medieval walls mixed to latest video performance and music that created a very unique situation. A context to experience, to listent to and to taste. <br />
It was an huge success as it shows the enthusiasm of the people and artists that came from every corner of Italy and Spain. <br />
Alterazioni wants to continue this way and be a meeting point for all those artists that can keep high the level of an event without be cataloged into the élite's art lists and the contemporary market. <br />
Alterazioni will be back next year thanks to the support of regional, provincial and municipal authorities and with a list (still under construction) of many new partners in the artistic field, in order to give a new space to those who will deserve it and gain it with new ideas. <br />
Moreover, in the new edition, there'll be lots of news and amplifications, from the theatre to the new musical and video tendencies. <br />
The attempt is, and will always be, that of "alter" historical environments to rediscover that value already overleid by the historicity of those mures, to reinvent a new identity for this territory through creativity.<br />
The echo of the past edition was so strong that is still resounding. We hope to find again that reliance of those people who blieved in us... we hope that new sources will help us to let this project become more and more important.<br />
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ALTERAZIONI Festival on facebook: <br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=109521829091166">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=109521829091166</a><br />
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<div align="center">Forever in Love.</div><br />
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official website:<br />
<a href="http://www.micheleguidarini.com/">http://www.micheleguidarini.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-81235151751015228392010-10-21T14:00:00.029+02:002012-01-24T20:38:49.299+01:00EDWIN USHIRO<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lJfgsL0BmKbeR6TqRTGgPuWq5ruqJKE_6ct5eIogFB2TIeLwo7Wcsuq8zLiwEvsjV40KFun5mlnlceEKPnNfVSaJO8MMpQespEDJ5wIEQcuhOUdTlu14FPlahFCGCKkGJu44LivF4VE/s1600/EDWIN_USHIRO_NEULOVERS2-689x490.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="455" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530473460498424114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lJfgsL0BmKbeR6TqRTGgPuWq5ruqJKE_6ct5eIogFB2TIeLwo7Wcsuq8zLiwEvsjV40KFun5mlnlceEKPnNfVSaJO8MMpQespEDJ5wIEQcuhOUdTlu14FPlahFCGCKkGJu44LivF4VE/s640/EDWIN_USHIRO_NEULOVERS2-689x490.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><br />
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Much After the Clouds Retreated into the Millyard. 2007.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Edwin, you've been transplanted from Maui to California.<br />
Have you ever missed your origin land? </span><br />
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Yeah, I do miss my home. It's probably the reason why Hawaii continues to be the location of my paintings.<br />
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Familiar Kiss of the Underground Sandstorm. 2007.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">You attended the Art Center College of Design and attained a BFA in Illustration with Honors. TRUE or FALSE.</span> <br />
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True. Are you testing me?<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Since that moment you've been working as Production Designer, Visual Consultant, Art Director, Storyboard Artist, and Concept Designer. Which is your favorite role? </span><br />
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I enjoy any creative role. To me, these are just titles. In the end you are delivering creativity for a specific area. I am just amazed that I get to draw for a living.<br />
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<div align="center">From this Point on when She would Look at the Tea Leaves, her Memory would Lead her Back to This very <br />
Moment. 2008.</div><br />
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<div align="center">Birth of Unreckoning. 2008.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What's your biggest client?</span> <br />
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Sony. Mostly for the fact that we have a close relationship and that I have worked in numerous parts of the company.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What's your best client and why? </span><br />
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If you are asking what my favorite project was, then, I'd say it was doing graffiti in a Los Angeles Chinatown bathroom when I worked at NBC. I had the opportunity to deface public property in broad daylight while the Police was in full sight of me doing it. It was for a television series entitled, Boomtown. Haha, try to stop me cops!<br />
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<div align="center"><object height="260" width="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CytFHqCeFXo?fs=1&hl=it_IT"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CytFHqCeFXo?fs=1&hl=it_IT" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="350" height="260"></embed></object></div><div align="center">Preview of Edwin Solo Show at Project Gallery. 2008.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Where are you currently exhibiting?</span> <br />
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I am currently exhibiting at the Portsmouth Museum of Art with Hokusai, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, KAWS, my friends, Gary Baseman, Yoskay Yamamoto, and Andrew Hem. The exhibition is called, "SugiPOP!: The Influence of Anime and Manga on Contemporary Art." The show was curated by Beau Basse, owner of LeBasse Projects in Culver City, California.<br />
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<div align="center">Late for Reconciliation. 2010.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What's your favorite work among those that have been featured at Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle?</span> <br />
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My favorite is called "A Commemorative Reset Button". It is a portrait of my cat, Rusty. <br />
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<div align="center">A Commemorative Reset Button. 2010.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
Something you do when you're procrastinating.</span> <br />
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Play basketball, draw something else, sing, catch up on emails and go to the beach. <br />
Right now, I am watching the rain fall.<br />
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<div align="center"><iframe frameborder="0" height="220" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/6434177?title=0&portrait=0&color=618691" width="400"></iframe></div><a href="http://vimeo.com/6434177">Edwin Ushiro Solo Show Teaser</a>from <a href="http://vimeo.com/jeremyyasherlynch">Jeremy Asher Lynch</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Your biggest goal in life.</span> <br />
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To make a movie. I am working on my IMovie skills just as we speak. Ha!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What's after death? </span><br />
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You know, I draw ghosts all day long. I read extensively on them too. If I catch a show about ghosts on television, I'll stay tuned. My friends share unexplained phenomenon stories with me and I am thrilled to hear them. <br />
I have even experienced things I cannot explain. Yet, I am still not convinced there is anything else beyond death. <br />
Maybe I linger on this topic to try and convince myself about the romantic notion of life after death because I want to believe it's true.<br />
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<div align="center">Rolling Atop Hills Knowing Full Well that Nothing Exists Beneath You. 2010.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">A movie or a book that changed your life.</span> <br />
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A movie: The Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. <br />
A book: Tuesdays with Morrie.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Best museum you've ever been to.</span> <br />
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As far as best collections go, hands down I have to say The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.<br />
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<div align="center">To Counter Imponderability.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What project are you going through right now?</span> <br />
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I have a few awesome concept design jobs but I am mostly excited about making new paintings.<br />
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More about the artist: <br />
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-2843607571531447702010-10-09T18:34:00.028+02:002012-01-24T16:54:01.292+01:00JASON LEVESQUE<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5-CmXiWZQaK7axZrd0UUiOHmrb6I8MMDAowzqFKDou8eqpJ25ynCb8cqoCotAFmYmzGMe6kU47FMb57J1lQc46Ho6cQv6TtktIMOgnUtOhlqN0AwwIWwMDucalRJZsQeCWZEVgYcA3JY/s1600/23696_381336326721_715451721_4320145_4238417_n.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5526087195815042290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5-CmXiWZQaK7axZrd0UUiOHmrb6I8MMDAowzqFKDou8eqpJ25ynCb8cqoCotAFmYmzGMe6kU47FMb57J1lQc46Ho6cQv6TtktIMOgnUtOhlqN0AwwIWwMDucalRJZsQeCWZEVgYcA3JY/s1600/23696_381336326721_715451721_4320145_4238417_n.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Jason, you're better known by the online moniker 'Stuntkid' <br />
Is this nickname linked to your artistic career somehow?</span><br />
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Haha, no, not really. <br />
I used to say "a stunt is something unusual done for attention" which sort of describes what i do, but it's kind of lame. Back in 2001 when i registered the domain name stuntkid.com i was dirtboarding a lot and taking a lot of spills. The "stunt" name had more to do with activities outside of art.<br />
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<div align="center">Bio Sphere.</div><br />
<div align="center"><object height="250" width="300"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/y4jsEzEjS9w?fs=1&hl=it_IT"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/y4jsEzEjS9w?fs=1&hl=it_IT" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="300" height="250"></embed></object></div><div align="center">Time lapse coloring.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">You describe yourself as a self taught artist. <br />
What's the best of being a self will artist?</span><br />
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I don't know if it's necessarily a good thing. <br />
Being self taught often feels like taking the slow road. <br />
Now that i have children of my own who are pursuing arts i'm really encouraging them to take advantage of the educational opportunities available to them. That's not to say I'm not happy with where I am now. In art school I would have been forced to experiment with different mediums which i'm sure would have helped me along the way. <br />
Especially now, when I am trying to pursue mediums outside of digital.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">5 things that mostly influence your art.</span><br />
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Biology, i read a lot of science and often get inspired by whatever subject i'm studying at the time. <br />
My favorite artists inspire me, i have a short list of amazingly talented people i look up to and their work really motivates me to push myself. <br />
My wife influences me by providing critiques for my work before the public gets their eyes on it. Many times i've been ready to publish something only to have her suggest i put more time into it. It always turns out for the better. <br />
My fans also have a huge influence in my work. After all, i am here to sell art and the overall response i get from fans does help me find direction. <br />
I don't think i have a fifth. Perhaps the fifth influence is something greater than i can see. Maybe it's the larger trend in artwork of which i'm a very small part.<br />
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<div align="center">Little Red Riding hood emerging from the wolfs belly.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">If you were a color, which color would you be?</span><br />
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I want to be cuttlefish colored so i could change my color all the time. <br />
Maybe i can gene-splice in some chromatophores under this milk skin I was born with.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">I know you love bugs. Why?</span><br />
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I've always been fascinated with insects. <br />
I've never really considered why. Perhaps because they are the the most easily encountered wildlife you encounter as a child. <br />
As an adult i find that i can grab my camera and go on safari without leaving my yard. The scale is very small but there is so much to discover.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Is your wife an artist too?</span><br />
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She is, our mutual interest in art actually brought us together. <br />
It's worked out quite well, we spend nearly every night together doing art at our large combined desk. I've been in relationships before where my dedication to art came off as neglect but with Elizabeth that's not the case because we're both working on something. You can find her work at <a href="http://www.lizzelizzel.com/">http://www.lizzelizzel.com/</a><br />
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<div align="center">Apnea - for the Anatomically Correct show.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What are you working on right now?</span><br />
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It's October, so i'm in the Holloween spirit. <br />
I'm cranking through some zombie themed pieces then I'm working on a body of work for an upcoming exhibition. <br />
I also just wrapped up some t-shirt designs for a huge client, though since these won't be out until mid-next year i can't share the details yet. <br />
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<div align="center">a corpse bride, but not THE corpse bride.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Have you ever exhibited in Europe?</span><br />
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Yes, I participated in group show last year in Paris at the Toast Gallery and before that i showed in London in a show titled "Two Faced". <br />
I'm looking forward to showing again in Europe next year. I have one show with Conrad Roset in Barcelona and hopefully a show London as well. <br />
This will be my first time traveling to Europe, so i'm very excited about these two shows.<br />
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<div align="center">"Scyphozoan Lifecycle" for the Aquatic Life show at Plastikwrap. <br />
Featuring Mosh</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">A sweet thought.</span><br />
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Thanks for the interview, I'm really looking forward to exhibiting in Europe next year.<br />
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More stuff here:<br />
<a href="http://blog.stuntkid.com/">http://blog.stuntkid.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-53917246476137894572010-10-03T14:15:00.031+02:002012-01-24T21:01:24.118+01:00COLIN CHRISTIAN<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimdq4mHcPZcgbNE6UpdKWbCjIT8-1EJc9xHdcEEEAymmaOea5JAdWLEfs-2AYjRWHKDDKWWrpYm8yz-Q611vGUplah0XNaXkpOLjkcQLAGCUxtWnHjsWZ6sVafRuOv3y2U-sgtyXF8KDA/s1600/l_98b83c9528b17059805f62d701b3b467.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523797313775482962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimdq4mHcPZcgbNE6UpdKWbCjIT8-1EJc9xHdcEEEAymmaOea5JAdWLEfs-2AYjRWHKDDKWWrpYm8yz-Q611vGUplah0XNaXkpOLjkcQLAGCUxtWnHjsWZ6sVafRuOv3y2U-sgtyXF8KDA/s1600/l_98b83c9528b17059805f62d701b3b467.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
<div align="center">'Solaris Pilot' fiberglass 48" by 48".</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Hi Colin, you were born in London on March 30th 1964 and now live in Tampa, FL with your wife Sas. <br />
You're both artists, so you live and work together. When did you start to work together?</span><br />
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Sas and I have worked along side each other for 10 years but always on our own projects, now we have just started working on a single piece together and we are both very happy with the results.<br />
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<div align="center">'Hardcore Pink' fiberglass & silicone 45".</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Who is "Suki"?</span><br />
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She was the first large scale fiberglass figure I ever produced, an anime girl 7 ft tall, she got it all started.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What was the first museum you came in with your sculptures?</span><br />
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I had a piece in the Museum of Sex in NY and at the Bristol museum in the UK this year.<br />
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<div align="center">'F**K Yeah' 9ft fiberglass and silicone.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">You describe yourself as "rather intolerant of stupidity, ignorance and intellectual laziness" and say that for that reason you find most religious people annoying. <br />
Are you talking about something in particular?</span><br />
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I have a problem with anyone who believes in something but knows nothing about the actual subject they supposedly have faith in.<br />
It is important to ask questions about everything.<br />
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<div align="center">"F*** You!" 9' tall, fiber glass and silicone.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Your 5 favorite bands.</span><br />
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Radiohead,The Beatles,Lemon Jelly,Zero 7 and David Bowie.<br />
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<div align="center">"F*** You!" 9' tall, fiber glass and silicone.</div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnBYGvF4k-8wlM1c_HXjkb8agfoDaY4vCIznmuydSmLdAwgShPvsrZPtxaIjoRREYY1YY2MeR0qZ7keYVwP7w4QKjBvkSL1miFTvSgvF_82jU-XycYbqx8QBl_LFhRwP1Ry48sdj7efNw/s1600/61286_469478711022_742126022_7229600_3551843_n.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523803574763463106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnBYGvF4k-8wlM1c_HXjkb8agfoDaY4vCIznmuydSmLdAwgShPvsrZPtxaIjoRREYY1YY2MeR0qZ7keYVwP7w4QKjBvkSL1miFTvSgvF_82jU-XycYbqx8QBl_LFhRwP1Ry48sdj7efNw/s1600/61286_469478711022_742126022_7229600_3551843_n.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Are you a naturalist?</span><br />
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I do study animals, yes, if you mean Naturist, yes but only at home.<br />
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<div align="center">'Solaris Small Bust' Swarovski , over 16,000 crystals applied by Sas onto his sculpture.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What do you usually love to read?</span><br />
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Usually science based,evolution studies, cosmology, some physics and as many movie books as I can get my hand on.<br />
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<div align="center">juicy cherry or big banana? 4ft tall fiberglass and silicone.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What's your latest sculpture and how long did it take to create it?</span><br />
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The last piece I finished was called 'Queenie', she took around 2 weeks.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Where do you find the right inspiration for your artworks?</span><br />
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Watching animal documentaries, old scifi movies and reading...<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">In 2004 you started using silicone in your sculptures. <br />
How did it change your way of working and the final result?</span><br />
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Silicone is a very difficult medium to get right. <br />
Lots of artists use it to do old age pieces and monsters but I am trying to get a flawless appearance which then demands a lot more from me in the original sculpt, plus the molds have to be perfect too, so a lot more time is involved.<br />
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<div align="center">'Firecracker' with 50's sci fi and chinese dragon corset.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Is there any other material you can imagine that could make your artworks even more realistic than this?</span><br />
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I am experimenting with some translucent resins that show some promising results, we shall see.<br />
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<div align="center">'Dominadoll' 6 1/2 ft tall sneak peek Opera show NY.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What are you working on right now?</span><br />
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Sas and I are working on our show in Feb in NY at Opera Gallery, right now I am finishing a piece based on Nefertiti as a space ship pilot and a large glowing chair based on pollen.<br />
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<div align="center">Colin, Sas and dogs in their living room. Photo Paul Johnson.</div><br />
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more stuff and news here.<br />
<a href="http://www.colinchristian.com/">http://www.colinchristian.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-26465942737810960202010-09-28T10:34:00.019+02:002012-01-24T21:02:54.471+01:00BRIAN KIRHAGIS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDnCL83agL1TenZQpKnpDXRhurG7zVWGcZsRximnUGWSwK8jMLdfbALioR_SI8fAjibrG2q6efOfQuzMaXNHSUQVEa4RcFmXx27CNfM367ZQM4kg_g9b6RK7qMAub6juhWOB4kA-HrBRY/s1600/jz.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521882664683208642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDnCL83agL1TenZQpKnpDXRhurG7zVWGcZsRximnUGWSwK8jMLdfbALioR_SI8fAjibrG2q6efOfQuzMaXNHSUQVEa4RcFmXx27CNfM367ZQM4kg_g9b6RK7qMAub6juhWOB4kA-HrBRY/s1600/jz.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
<div align="center">MR. CARTER.<br />
Acrylic & Elmer's Glue on canvas. 30 x 40". 2010.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Hi Brian, where were you born? </span><br />
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I was born in Baltimore, Maryland.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Where do you live now?</span> <br />
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Physically I live in Mineola, NY, which is on Long Island, just outside of NYC. <br />
But most of the time I live inside my head, sorting through all of the madness...<br />
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<div align="center">BP = Bad Problem. Acrylic on canvas. 70 x 40". 2010.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Where are you planning to live your life?</span><br />
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In the near future, I want to move into manhattan, to get an apartment and a studio. After that, lets see where life takes me. <br />
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<div align="center">PRAY FOR HIP HOP<br />
Acrylic on canvas. 30 x 40". 2008.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What do you do for living?</span><br />
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I am self employed, designing websites and doing graphic design for a range of different clients. <br />
I also sell as much of my work as possible, from original paintings, limited edition giclees, and posters. I work in the studio all day, where my Mac is never far from an easel. <br />
This way, my whole day consists of painting, drawing, and designing…is some way shape or form.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Circle or squares?</span><br />
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Circles. Its the building block for all life. (Vesica Pisces) So if you really get down to it, all squares are made from circles anyway...<br />
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<div align="center">SOCIALITE<br />
Acrylic on canvas. 48 x 48". 2010.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Describe your art as if you were an art critic.</span><br />
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Hmmm, I think a critic would describe my work as raw. My technique could improve, but my content and composition are strong. <br />
I always have a lot going on, with hidden images and symbolic elements embedded within the larger images. <br />
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<div align="center">EVERY LITTLE THING.<br />
Acrylic on canvas. 66 x 40". 2010.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Describe your art as it is for you.</span><br />
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For me, being an artist and having the ability to create is a blessing. When I set out to create a piece of art, its not just about painting something pretty, or aesthetically pleasing. <br />
I want to challenge myself to create something meaningful, whether it be relevant to my own experiences, or society's experience as a whole. <br />
Art has a unique ability to communicate when words falls short… it truly is a universal language.<br />
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<div align="center">A REASON TO HOLD.<br />
Acrylic on wood. 50 x 50". 2009.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">First thought of the day.</span><br />
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What needs to be done.<br />
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<div align="center">WE WON'T BE PUPPETS.<br />
Acrylic on canvas. 70 x 40". 2010.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">How much do colors count in your paintings?</span><br />
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I think the use of color has been an integral part of my work. <br />
Color can be used in so many ways, and a strong understanding of color theory is vital to any good artist. Its comparable to a good writer who possesses an extensive vocabulary. The more words you know, the better you can express your thoughts. <br />
The same holds true for color…<br />
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<div align="center">CAUTIOUS CONSCIOUS.<br />
Acrylic on wood. 50 x 50". 2009.</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What's your latest work?</span><br />
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Funny story, and I guess a great follow up to the color question. <br />
Lately, I am removing all color from my palette, and going back to black and white. I think it is symbolic for me in a lot of ways. Sometimes color confuses things, in society, and in art. <br />
When you take it all away, you are down to the raw essentials, the roots. Thats where I want to be. <br />
The greatest writers make the most profound statements with the fewest and simplest words, why can't I do the same with my art?<br />
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<div align="center">B & W in progress...</div><br />
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website:<br />
<a href="http://www.brikart.net/">http://www.brikart.net/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-80917413187265719092010-09-24T13:50:00.025+02:002012-01-24T21:05:01.170+01:00DEWEY THANG NGUYEN<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP9GyVnmEH5NGOFLRN-E_YRMHYdy62bY38IIrQO0Tcc-GYj7u5qMXhKB2bSAUeVkyTjegCqzjd26QcCM9vB1YyqZwFTv2Umizue1sV8dPHJR0sfd6rdHO7dZuGVx8aAINhZDrsO3TSrF0/s1600/61494_428569647211_667607211_5579931_6628846_n.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520452979370947122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP9GyVnmEH5NGOFLRN-E_YRMHYdy62bY38IIrQO0Tcc-GYj7u5qMXhKB2bSAUeVkyTjegCqzjd26QcCM9vB1YyqZwFTv2Umizue1sV8dPHJR0sfd6rdHO7dZuGVx8aAINhZDrsO3TSrF0/s1600/61494_428569647211_667607211_5579931_6628846_n.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
<div align="center">Dewey Thang Nguyen<br />
<a href="http://monsieurlonesome.canalblog.com/">http://monsieurlonesome.canalblog.com/</a></div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Hi Duy, how old are you?</span> <br />
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I am 18 terrestrial years old.<br />
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<div align="center">Les éditions MachineMachine: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54510021666&ref=ts">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54510021666&ref=ts</a><br />
Collectif Erri: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=196021154739&ref=ts">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=196021154739&ref=ts</a><br />
Drownspire: <a href="http://drownspire.com/home">http://drownspire.com/home</a></div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Tell me about your origins. </span><br />
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I was born in 1992, April 17th in the Indonesian Red Cross Galang Hospital, on a refugee camp, right after my parent quit the Communist Party of Vietnam the same year. My mother is half Vietnamess and half American, my father is half Cambodian and half Chinese. <br />
Hopefully in 1993, my family arrived to Canada and I grew up in the province of Quebec where we speak French, in Sherbrooke city. <br />
I now live since 1 year in Montreal in the English area, NDG(Notre-Dame-de-Grâce). <br />
I predict myself to be, in a few years, living on another planet to raise a bunch of Extra-Terrestrial kids...<br />
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<img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520447591309553458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOwstaLwu0shf4IkgGu87myDWhgm6JdVsW_m9BeN7VjbGSlep78T3OaHuJMW7PFWVvmPnmRdYnzTf4Np-W1kesB-JkXuXOaxZHznFDkNNMeS48fxbFu1rRHCJoG08vPkt5SYp7YiwKjaE/s640/15338_200447692211_667607211_3579809_7066596_n.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="507" /><br />
<div align="center"><a href="http://monsieurlonesome.canalblog.com/">http://monsieurlonesome.canalblog.com/</a></div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. How many hours do you spend in a day drawing/painting?</span><br />
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Since a year, 8 to 13 hours a day approximately. I am mostly working on my stuff during the whole night, it's the best period in a day for me to be creative and inspired... I have always spent a lot of time and energy since I'm a kid on drawing, it's almost vital for me I guess. <br />
I just can't imagine myself doing anything else than what I am doing and it's been clear in my head since my really young age.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcu6so45ZxfjD9xO7VMWFr87JU2nvBpusCUN3esbdfMK-f3slh1iVpBE6m51xsPkkgikAbiayD272SK1DZyDd9GFbJkzv9RI7cOEeSBfIQuiNGG44LM_8aZb6ZuRngGhiRpV9ekQqEjz8/s1600/15338_206034902211_667607211_3601434_6525085_n.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520450180871930066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcu6so45ZxfjD9xO7VMWFr87JU2nvBpusCUN3esbdfMK-f3slh1iVpBE6m51xsPkkgikAbiayD272SK1DZyDd9GFbJkzv9RI7cOEeSBfIQuiNGG44LM_8aZb6ZuRngGhiRpV9ekQqEjz8/s1600/15338_206034902211_667607211_3601434_6525085_n.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
<div align="center">Kurt Cobain est de retour sous forme d'hyppocampe. Kurt Cobain Adorait les hyppocampes.<br />
Venez voir la version gif: <a href="http://monsieurlonesome.canalblog.com/archives/2009/12/14/16146274.html">http://monsieurlonesome.canalblog.com/archives/2009/12/14/16146274.html</a></div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. 5 things you really can't stand.</span> <br />
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1 - Violence, power trip and machismo<br />
2 - Ignorant people with racial, sexual, social and cultural prejudices<br />
3 - Horrible commercial music on the radio and television<br />
4 - The Capitalism and Auto-destructive society in wich we are living (Capitalist Society )<br />
5 - The lack of truth from our Governments about the intelligent Extraterrestrial life and technology. We need a disclosure!<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Best piece you've ever done.</span> <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfWseDv_hK3qF99LySWg-QRiaLQOP5GZCYB7N-WISHYNqU60pLSg-1bi5HJsa50UuagbY9lx6eBg1YztwiLbwEIMGJlqz7nCFNGU8kWUTxhuVgdiu1IBEARbEj3DG7GiE2A3paBcoN8uo/s1600/28769572.gif"><img alt="" border="0" height="495" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520449843219492946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfWseDv_hK3qF99LySWg-QRiaLQOP5GZCYB7N-WISHYNqU60pLSg-1bi5HJsa50UuagbY9lx6eBg1YztwiLbwEIMGJlqz7nCFNGU8kWUTxhuVgdiu1IBEARbEj3DG7GiE2A3paBcoN8uo/s640/28769572.gif" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><br />
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The best piece I have ever done is the one I did at 16 yr old on my dog Pussy. It was during summertime, school was about to begin, my friends were still on vacation out of town and I just finished reading Black Hole from Charles Burns few days before... Into the Boredom mood, I decided to draw my dog in a very twisted, repugnant and realistic way possible. <br />
It turns out that she had a weird consuming disease into her mouth and face. I love my Pussy...<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEAp4bXnEDaChnDXgY4bJNeK42q4VGyF2YRJt9Y2Ri1sOygMEta7pDr5x8RVWjFWeCE8ppWLeapyp9R4Sgk4VlO8KQ_Vxn_X4U-usuPFjVwPV47s8rcS7DGZWu0GcK81yWd1CZuEi5v9w/s1600/15338_197607142211_667607211_3571377_2578269_n.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520451232521268146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEAp4bXnEDaChnDXgY4bJNeK42q4VGyF2YRJt9Y2Ri1sOygMEta7pDr5x8RVWjFWeCE8ppWLeapyp9R4Sgk4VlO8KQ_Vxn_X4U-usuPFjVwPV47s8rcS7DGZWu0GcK81yWd1CZuEi5v9w/s1600/15338_197607142211_667607211_3571377_2578269_n.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. What are you working on right now?</span><br />
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Right now, I am working on a project for Le Cirque du Soleil(<a href="http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/welcome.aspx">http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/en/welcome.aspx</a>), an collective Exhibition in France with E.E.N.C. (En l'Encre Nous Croyons; <a href="http://www.myspace.com/eenc">http://www.myspace.com/eenc</a>), Illustrations for a book about artists whos influence by Mexican Pop Culture lead by Jorge Alderete artist and general editor with the London based publisher Korero (<a href="http://www.korerobooks.co.uk/">http://www.korerobooks.co.uk</a>). <br />
I am also actively working on submissions for international collectives and fanzines and participating on few live murals paintings events and festivals with the Montreal based collective EN MASSE(<a href="http://www.enmasse.info/">http://www.enmasse.info</a>) and others regroupment.<br />
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<div align="center"><a href="http://www.goodvsevilmagazine.com/">http://www.goodvsevilmagazine.com/</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-51353827369073563802010-09-22T09:29:00.015+02:002012-01-24T21:07:07.138+01:00MEETING JASON HERNANDEZ<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFHza73kmOA_46Co7TkYJQGGBgX0dxzT-4osbkGnzYMBdgd9jqdyPnutrTeEwOC-CuRX6SAbuLlUsxinxFBH9vQEt5wLoLL4oJboDVvIDezVD7BtvIWExmO4EG0R1TEUUfKarf0bpj6qo/s1600/6100_1074697795292_1461609223_30156747_3615489_n.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519639776003502962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFHza73kmOA_46Co7TkYJQGGBgX0dxzT-4osbkGnzYMBdgd9jqdyPnutrTeEwOC-CuRX6SAbuLlUsxinxFBH9vQEt5wLoLL4oJboDVvIDezVD7BtvIWExmO4EG0R1TEUUfKarf0bpj6qo/s1600/6100_1074697795292_1461609223_30156747_3615489_n.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Jason, what your drawings deal with?</span><br />
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My drawings usually deal with anything that influences me at the time. from History, to friends, to current events, but recently Ive been really into Cosmology and the exciting world of physics. I try and combine that with my love for Byzantine and Flemish art of the 14th and 15th centuries. In my latest body of work I cover mans oldest and greatest pursuits, the cosmos. Since the beginning of time man has looked up at the skys and wondered about their place in the grand scheme of things. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjHmHzr0UAATf4Dk0uGUStEIFWyLuHQ9zACtLU06qptfMDjU1yQTyMzlwUh2ifgCbRMBgCEIkjUORAb31Ffz9L_KPgkByRMfsBm3waED0npw29_IyBlYobNWUN5D1_ezc08f8VRQkz1o8/s1600/44481_1360879469655_1461609223_30740609_3225960_n.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519637449689848130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjHmHzr0UAATf4Dk0uGUStEIFWyLuHQ9zACtLU06qptfMDjU1yQTyMzlwUh2ifgCbRMBgCEIkjUORAb31Ffz9L_KPgkByRMfsBm3waED0npw29_IyBlYobNWUN5D1_ezc08f8VRQkz1o8/s640/44481_1360879469655_1461609223_30740609_3225960_n.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="464" /></a><br />
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The stars have been a guiding force in mans greatest accomplishment, from religion to science (specifically space exploration), two achievements of mankind that have always and will forever clash. As much as these two subjects clash i cant help but connect the two in similar ways. <br />
To me they both have their larger than life presumptions. Angels?, the after life?, string theory?, quantum foam, tiny wormholes in time that can lead to different places not only in space but in time? Given the latter two are just theories, you must keep in mind that these theories come from today's most respected physicists. If anyone of those assumptions were true for any field then who's to say that the others don't exist? <br />
Its this type of thinking that goes behind my recent work. In executing some of my pieces I try and pull back from being to depictive or narrative to allow room for open interpretation from the viewers.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">10 things you like the most (no order):</span><br />
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-Coffee<br />
-Micheladas<br />
-Art sessions with friends<br />
-My dog Mona<br />
-My Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" DVD Series<br />
-My "Curb Your Enthusiasm" DVD Series<br />
-MY Adult Vita Gummies for a road to healthier living.<br />
-Wasting time on Facebook.<br />
-"Lee's" sandwiches<br />
-Homemade Tabbouleh with Pita bread and hummus. Mmmm.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Black, white and... red?</span><br />
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Well I first experimented with with black and red to see how the two colors existed next to each other. <br />
I felt that red would allow me to be flexible with my themes considering that red could be interpreted in so many ways. <br />
It can symbolize love, hate, sin, royalty, etc. Come to think of it. I dont think I ever explored love in my drawings, lol! As a result of my love for Byzantine paintings. <br />
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I recently added a new medium to my drawings which is gold acrylic. I try and use the gold reservedly to represent the supernatural or divine aspects in my drawings.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">What are you working on right now?</span> <br />
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I just recently finished a body of work for a show I had at the Cave Gallery in Venice Beach with fellow artist's Tom Haubrick and Euth. <br />
I am now working on several shows I have coming up in October. One on Oct, 10th at Sacred Gallery in New York. The show will cover our innermost fears and is appropriately entitled,"Blood, Sweat, and Fears".<br />
I'm also preparing for a solo show I will be having at Sacred Gallery next June.<br />
The other is on Oct. 30th in San Francisco and is entitled "Bad Dads"<br />
after the dads of Wes Anderson films. (The name of the gallery has yet to be revealed to me. I'll see if I can get that to you soon).<br />
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He attended the high school Institute of Art in Spoleto and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome where he reached his best results. <br />
Paolo is now living and working in Rome. <br />
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<div align="center">L' addestratore di pennuti</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. How long have you been painting? </span><br />
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Well, i took part to many painting contests and i've always classified at the top.<br />
My love for art and painting was born when i was a child; I used to pass all my days drawing because it made me feel good. <br />
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<div align="center">L' eremita</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. What's your art influenced by? </span><br />
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I'm influenced by many artists like Bosch, Ryden, Bagayan and Ceccoli. <br />
Otherwise i find inspiration for my characters in movies, usually i rework on them and give them my own message. <br />
My characters are kind of "outcasts", they often got child features but in their eyes and look you can find anxiety and bitterness typical of adulthood.<br />
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<div align="center">Il cabaret di Camilla</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Any upcoming show?</span><br />
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At the moment i'm working on some paintings to show next months in several exhibitions around Rome. <br />
One day i would love to exhibit at the Strychnin Gallery in Berlin.<br />
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<div align="center">compagni di merende</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-46297910679856822382010-09-03T17:59:00.012+02:002012-01-24T21:08:58.799+01:00SAM BEETHAMHere's a bunch of images by graphic desginer and illustrator Sam Beetham based in Wellington, New Zealand.<br />
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<div align="center">Blah Blah Blah</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Hi Sam. <br />
Please, describe your art in few words.</span><br />
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I would describe some of my work as surrealist ethnography...the study of the absurd,and the obsessions of contemporary culture. Arbitrary scenarios, juxtaposing enigmatic titles against strange depictions of misshapen characters accompanied by simple, almost childlike text. working both with and against the elements of the cartoon form.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">. Your characters are so ambiguous, while looking at them you never know if they're good or evil. What are they?</span><br />
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I prefer to keep my characters ambiguous...They represent the everyman (or woman..or baby..or dog..etc) Blob like and without definition. Their faces always neutral. This allows the viewer to decide for themselves whether the piece is sinister, naive, funny or ridiculous ( hopefully all them )...like all art..I think its better to let the observer decide for themselves.<br />
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I would like to continue to dredge from the unconscious of this globalized monoculture....Continue painting, drawing, and moving back and forth between styles...and try not to take it all to seriously.<br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Sam-Beetham/741193520">http://www.facebook.com/people/Sam-Beetham/741193520</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-42284927484456551182010-08-05T16:41:00.013+02:002012-01-24T21:10:08.418+01:00JESSICA SIMANOWSKI<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8AmZXmxHSmKTGo6OL4FiSqIY9B0-MHqm0siokDMqRX6LYsd9QlDNI_2ZJk6fRmPa1-Zaionrt8Eo3qlBfPl2e7OzFPZW55dyC7qsWQGGcCoPm_Hk1WpOxgVhpfWvuol-qexrxcqwsBEw/s1600/consciousness+robber+s.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" height="426" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501938070937256562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8AmZXmxHSmKTGo6OL4FiSqIY9B0-MHqm0siokDMqRX6LYsd9QlDNI_2ZJk6fRmPa1-Zaionrt8Eo3qlBfPl2e7OzFPZW55dyC7qsWQGGcCoPm_Hk1WpOxgVhpfWvuol-qexrxcqwsBEw/s640/consciousness+robber+s.JPG" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><br />
<div align="center">Consciousness Robber</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Hi Jessie. Finally we`ve made it! People should know that my guest has been very busy the last few days with the creation of her new website which is still under construction. Tell us a bit about it.</span><br />
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Hello Daniela. What a pleasure to talk to you! Yes, I have been busy with creating my new website, unfortunately it is not ready yet but will go online within the coming weeks. I am very excited about it because I wanted to have a new website since quite some time now because my old website doesn`t represent me anymore. On my new website I will only show all of my new paintings but also the plush toys and accessoires that I have been doing. I am planning to expand that section with handpainted vinyl and wood toys also. The website will also have a blog section and a shop section, so that people will be able to buy directly from my website later on.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Are you promoting new artworks upon there?</span><br />
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Yes, actually I won`t be showing any of my old paintings there. First of all because the style that I have developed during the last few years does not really have much to do with my older paintings anymore. <br />
I´m a real paint addict and created a lot of paintings during the last ten years. At first I was playing around with different styles and techniques, from dreamy to abstract, layered to figurative, just all kind of things, trying to find my own style. I had a lot of gallery shows and a good income. But then a few years ago I kinda locked myself away and went really deep within. I detached myself from mass-consciousness and especially the art system. Meaning that I stopped working with galleries or interacting with other artists. I wanted to be absolutly independent and detached from it all, in order to truly do the stuff that I like, without considering what a gallery or people would say about it. So I locked myself away, painted like a maniac, had very little contact to the outside world and went crazy, lol. I felt it was nessecary to do that for myself. I found myself melt all different styles and techniques that I had played with before and melt it into my very own style.<br />
That is the reason why I won´t be showing any of my old paintings on my website. And they are all sold by now anyway.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">You were born in Germany but are living and working in Portugal and I read that you were traveling a lot. How did that influence your art?</span><br />
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I was born in Germany. After I finished college I wanted to go to the art academy in Germany but only got a seat for the next semester. So I had half a year for myself and decided to take my mountainbike, some clothes, little money and just flew to Portugal to job around during the summer. I fell in love with the country and never went back to Germany, other than for christmas to visit my family. That was in 1996. Four years later I launched my first artshow in Portugal and it was a big success. So I didn`t even consider to ever go to the art academy, which I am pretty happy about because that way I could really just be authentic in my own style. <br />
My best friends live in the USA, so I got to travel there a few times to then travel through the States, which I always enjoyed very much. But I have a deep passion for Europe within me. I just love Europe. But yes, traveling around is always an inspiring thing to do. What influences me the most are colours, sounds and smells. Just the little things in life, for example feeling the wind on my skin. I immidiately get colours and sounds with that in my imagination. My imagination is pretty wild and highly active, just by the way. Lol. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Back to your work, it is such an explosion of colors and materials. What kind of texture do you use the most?</span><br />
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I work with multi layers. I usually start with painting an abstract painting. Then I step back and allow the painting to talk to me and show me what it wants to be. I just put my vision on blurry and then I usually see the figures or images within the abstract painting. Then I outline these imagies, paint around them. Then I add many more layers to it. So actually the background becomes the foreground and the foreground the background.<br />
In the past I worked a lot with modelling paste and sand. Sometimes I still use these materials but mostly I create my paintings with acrylicpaints and oilpastels only. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">"In my paintings people should see...."</span><br />
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.......whatever they want to see. I believe that this is the magic of art. Because art triggers the imagination of the observer, this expanded and free place within that unfortunatly most people forget to enter within their day to day lifes. I guess that is why humans love art because art connects them with their own inner source. It´s like a bumper sticker of consciousness, saying "Remember where you come from and who you truly are". <br />
So who am I to force a certain view on the observer of my art? I want them to use their own creative and imaginative abilities.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">"In my painting I see..."</span><br />
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...........an expression of myself in relation to the world. I guess my paintings are nice little pieces of my own inner world. Just like you would take pictures with your camera when you go and visit new places. I go within and take pictures of my own world, then smash them on canvas. <br />
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<div align="center">Jessie at work</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Any upcoming show for you?</span><br />
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Nothing planned for this year. Like I said, during the last few years I totally detached myself from the art scene. But now I am ready to come out again and have some things up my pocket for next year. Nothing fully settled yet though.<br />
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<div align="center">Trust and Oneness</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">You got an online store on Etsy also. How is going your business there? Are you satisfied?</span><br />
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Yes, I do have a shop on Etsy. No, I am not very satisfied. I figured that Etsy would probably work better for me if I would sell only prints or cheaper things. But I am selling original paintings there. I was able to sell some originals there but it could be better. But I love the idea of Etsy and always love places where a lot of artists come together. And actually Etsy was the only "public place" where I showed any of my art during the last years.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">If you could choose an artist to work with, who would it be?</span><br />
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Hm. Probably not an artist from the past because they were masters of their time. But that was an old time and their stuff wouldn`t rock today anymore. I think there are a lot of cool artists on this planet right now and I love to see where the art is going in general. So maybe I would want to paint with an art genius from the future. Someone who is going to rock this planet in 2050. Or maybe I just connect with my own future self and invite that part of me in to paint with me : )<br />
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<div align="center">fulfillment sucks</div><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Tell us a dream on which you have been inspired on your artwork.</span><br />
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That is a funny question because ALL of my paintings get born in my dreams. I have this really weird thing going on. It happens in that state where I start dreaming at night, yet I am still somehow here in this reality. It´s in that inbetween zone. So every night before I fall asleep, I enter this huge gallery and it shows me hundreds of paintings that I haven`t painted yet. The same happens in the morning when I am still asleep, yet slowly enter my body and this reality again. So I usually wake up in the morning and remember all those paintings I have seen in my future gallery in my dreamstate. So I jump out of bed and start to paint :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6271243868555987857.post-82927097730182932092010-07-05T22:00:00.006+02:002010-09-02T22:51:48.579+02:00BIG BAG BIG BOOM by BLUan unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life ... and how it could probably end.<br /><br /><br /><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/13085676">BIG BAG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/blu">blu</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /><br /><br>direction and animation by BLU<br /><a href="http://www.blublu.org/">http://http://www.blublu.org/</a><br />production and distribution by ARTSH.it<br /><a href="http://www.artsh.it/blog/">http://www.artsh.it/blog/</a><br />sountrack by ANDREA MARTIGNONIUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0