1 When did you start to make art?
I have enjoyed being creative and working with my hands since I was a child. As an artist I am well known for working with resin, a material that I first experimented with as a teenager.
2 How did you first evolve into a professional vocation?
It was not until the year 2000 that I became a full time artist, giving up my design and architectural business in London to devote all my time and energy to my art.
3 What drove you to make art as a professional vocation?
I didn’t choose to become an artist, it was something I had to do. I sold my business and my house to start producing artwork and put all I had into creating it.
4 Explain your inspiration?
I am inspired by the world around us, and especially current world events and the explosive effect they have caused in me and many other people in our society.
5 In what way does your inspiration transform into ideas
As I am not a figurative artist, I look for the Symbol that’s part of what I want to talk about and than I give it a “leading role”.
6 From Ideas to production of art – how? And why?
Once I have the subject matter and the protagonist I write the script. This process is quite challenging as I use pop symbols in a conceptual and sometimes abstract fashion.
7 Could your ideas be portrayed in any other other medium? If so which?
We all are as different as our fingerprints.
We could say that the way different individuals perform the same tasks in different ways is their STYLE.
Resin is the medium I mostly use – you could say it is my style at the moment.
I started to use resin as it was the perfect medium for the Jelly Babies which I created for my body of work on CLONING.
I love its translucent and light reflective qualities.
The effects are both happy and moody at the same time.
I also love it because it is unexploited and therefore new.
Finally it is technically very challenging, punishingly so: oops, there is the artist in me, it seems we all have to suffer for our art.
9 Why is your art made?
I wish I could be a politician to govern fairly, a religious leader to guide pragmatically and a powerful entrepreneur to serve as an example and inspiration to others, but I can’t. However what I can do hopefully is create art that makes people think about global issues.
10 What does being an artist mean to you?
My art is the result of a cocktail of passions: a conscious passion for life and passion at a much more physical and instinctive level, something I can’t describe, some kind of powerful and empowering mix of adrenalin and endorphin which needs to come out. And, finally, a passion for aesthetics.
13 What is art?
Has anybody ever answered that question?
‘Art is the creation of objects such as paintings and sculptures, which are thought to be beautiful or which express a particular idea.’ (Collins Dictionary).
16 What is your next move, project, show etc?
A surprise
Mauro Perucchetti can be seen at Halcyon Gallery until April 25th
