4 questions for Stefano Abbiati
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Smartarea. Looking at your pictures, spontaneously I felt like asking you to shed some light on the relationship between your titles and the subjects. Do the words come first, perhaps to ex-plore a linguistic suggestion, or does the painting come first? Stefano Abbiati. Generally, the title comes last on the basis of the suggestion the work itself offers. The title serves to create a sense of alienation, a disorientation in order to form an “electric” field before the painting, in which the mind loses some points of reference. If I paint a child against a yellow background, I won’t call the picture “child before a yellow background” but, perhaps, for example, “a bank clerk remembers how he used to be”. I have a great need to play with words because they have a specific weight and an exceptional power” Smartarea. Does ambiguity come naturally to you or does it require an effort? Stefano Abbiati. If by ambiguity you mean the fact that the figures I show have no recognizable identity, with sexually ambiguous or even animal-like features, I have to say that it comes naturally to me. But I need the effort of following nature, a photograph, a subject that already exists in order to unleash the "imagination". Stefano Abbiati. I would say that they are totally spontaneous and ingenuous, generated during the “creative trance”.
Smartarea. I have the impression that some of your works feel the influence of cinema and perhaps even of a horror aesthetic. Is this so? 13 February 2008 |
Stefano Abbiati
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