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Do I have to answer…? ... I'm a happy person I've made a series of choices in my life... ..all for art's sake I've been working in the arts for many years I've already reached my main objective to live through my work Naturally, I'm not satisfied …because I'm a restless soul like many a wanderer, I need non-stop stimulation As soon as I finish a project I start thinking of another My ambition, naturally, is to keep doing what I'm doing with more strength, more determination, with the opportunities that I've created for myself in these years and that are coming now. To dare, to take a side. This is what what I want to keep doing. I've always lived in Rome. I've always been based here. I've been teaching for the last eight years at the Libera Academy of Fine Arts in Rome The RUFA (Rome University of Fine Arts) Sculpture and drawing I saw it like small work opportunity. Then, when I met students who had something more to offer who are going down a great path I figured out what teaching means. I don't consider myself a teacher but someone who transmits information. from experience. To have a dialogue with every student. There's no school of thought, there's no standardization or globalization Everyone has their own unique fingerprint and you need to respect that. My role is to recognize and implement the talent of others to support it. Not only here, but outside as well. This was made by a female student I told her: "No, no, no!" It came out great. This is the model. I left it as it was. I love this scission. These cracks! It's research that develops fundamentally inside sculpture, installation, and inside scenographic works. The focal point is space to be occupied, invaded, emptied I work with the most different materials Marble, iron, bronze. Classic materials used in scuplture I need to create. A man that creates. The series of the large sheets of paper has been developed in every material The white sheet represents symbolically many things It could be. the optimistic beginning of something of usually every idea ends up on a piece of paper It could be an error, a piece of paper thrown away I this case this large sheet had the possibility of being stepped on it was executed to be walked on For everyone to leave their own footprints since it's situated in an open public space I don't like it when the viewer finds himself in front of an art piece and doesn't have the possibility When someone sees my work I put my doubts inside my own work. It doesn't try to give answers. Which is what many artists try to do. The last piece I've created is in direct contrast with all I've done so far. It's a cloud. That "rains!" Full of rain. It's made of tulle and iron wire which I use to design and create my structures. Hung, tied, sawn curtains of a thousand threads. ...eeeh... This cloud has been... ...positioned... ...at the entrance of an important space for an event It was lit by a strobe light Everyone that had to enter had to pass through this sort of stargate They were losing their conscience and at the same time gaining awareness of this intermediate membrane that will have taken you to the entrance. I like it very much Lighter than the usual kind of art I create. I had the opportunity of being contacted by The United Nations to create the monument for the anniversary of the first earthquake in Haiti A job of major importance considering the fact that Haiti is a third world country. So I had to organize, after completing the project and after the project was approved, a cargo of materials to send to create this piece. It has its own simplicity and its own strength The title of this piece is: "A Breath" «Soffio» To try to stop that moment before the ground starts shaking making the sheets slide. On the one on the ground simple names have been written of the victims of The United Nations. without last name only the first name. And without order of importance Because when death arrives it doesn't matter if you're a captain or a soldier. I wanted this monument to be a monument to all the victims of the Haiti earthquake By putting simple names I liked to think that between those names there could have been many Haitians that had the same names I grew up in Paris near Le Pompidou? Around this huge structure kids can play freely. I played there as a kid among the first computers and paintings. Those were my toys with other kids. It was very entertaining When I visited Italy I'd say: "Where's all that here?" My artistic imprint was really born there. Rome is like an open-sky museum. There's so much art that you're immediately influenced. At the same time, being a museum, it lacks life. What inspires me at the moment is women. As you can see, they're all portraits of women. Also Pop. American Pop, the color, the lysergic world of dreams. In Rome you get used to beauty. You live inside a 3D work of art. And it is truly wonderful.. If you have an artistic sensibility, it's the most beautiful place to live in. But it's not the best place to make things happen, because it is a museum.. So, it's great to come, to visit, to soak in the energy but you do have to go around the world and do your part. I dream a lot, every night, in multicolor and I remember everything. I use the language of dreams in my art. I insert these dream symbols in my paintings. Then I reflect upon them but I sketch as soon as I wake up. I always write down my dreams, that's where I start from. I believe that life is a dream and so is my creative process. That was born from my performances in which people always take part even magic. I'm very tied the world of white magic. This is an act of psyco-magic just like director Jodorowsky. I wanted all the people in the gallery to bomb this mannequin with their fears, writing their doubts and angst in pink. And then would ask the same people to paint the all thing in pink, making all their fears disappear painting the mannequin completely pink and therefore positive. I always do a lot of performances here in Italy. There is the artistic momentum to really do something. People are often unaware but they always end up taking part. At the beginning they are just interested spectators, but soon they start becoming nervous because to be on the spot it's not easy but at the end everyone has a great time People do like to get involved, it's the basic energy of humankind. I make people meet through art. It really works. I have fun, it fulfills me and everybody's happy. The United States? Wonderful. I've been there because I had contacted some galleries by internet that wanted to see some of my paintings. They like them and I'm having a show in 2012 at Bergamot Station the James Gray Gallery. la James Gray Gallery. Before my message was more political, tied to the image culture, the mass media, the star culture, the system and now, I'm moving towards "the human universe." Which is closer to dreams and magic. The feminine world at this moment. Soon I will move towards the world of children. I believe that the most beautiful thing in the world is to have children. It's the "magnum opus". The most complete experience that anyone can have. Difficult, yet truly fulfilling. Since women do it automatically, we have to create instead. almost all painters are men, right? Why? Because women create naturally we have to invent something to create... ...yes!