Birth: June 21, 1978
What I like about baroque is the reemergence of pre-Christian religion. The art of baroque mixes ancient pre-Christian myths with Christian imagery a….
Whether I'm at home and researching online or whether I'm in the studio just drawing, I think I'm more interested in practical research - discussing ….
I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's very much about ….
I think humor is often a very powerful tool to be able to express ideas that are heavy..
I like to make sculpture because it makes my life social. When I make drawings, I work alone. When I work with sculpture I have someone I can work wi….
Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a for….
I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist.".
Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making..
I'm interested in making works for museums in a way that make the space feel domestic, and I'm always thinking about how this work will be part of so….
I know that Instagram belongs to Facebook, so I cannot really stand on a political pedestal and say, "I'm against Facebook!" But I haven't wanted to ….
I'm spending a lot of time in the Palazzo and in the museums. I'm printing [pictures that I take] and making a binder with a mix of internet research….
I felt like if I was on Facebook, I would probably spend my days looking at people's profiles, seeing what they do, and feeling bad about not working….
The political cartoon, in a way, is one of the highest forms of expression about our times. I don't believe in dramatic statements when it comes to p….
For me, it's really important that the experience of art is always something that is able to provoke strong emotion, an emotion that you feel in your….
In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often stronger to spread an opini….
A lot of my work deals with this emotion of discouragement or fear, and this emotion cannot be approached without humor because then things become in….
In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and ….
I think art must be the place where you are protected from the logic of the outside world..
Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers?.
Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow..
When I think about the reference to baroque, I'm most interested in how art was integrated into domestic life. That's why I like fresco, because fres….