Large scale painting installation using thermochromic ink which allow the work to be perceived as monochrome or image depending on the temperature of the room and the proximity of the viewer.
1 When did you start to make art?
I entered my first art contests at 9 and took my first drawings classes at the age of eleven.
2 How did you evolve into a professional artist?
When I found professional and collective venues to show my work.
3 What drove you to make art as a professional vocation?
Art.
4 Explain your inspiration?
Curatorial and historical operations, displacement, sequences, stratification, viscosity, morphological and semantic registers, and the work of others.
5 In what way does your inspiration transform into ideas?
Inspiration become ideas only if I put it into questions.
6 From Ideas to production of art – how? And why?
See 5. Because I got to try to answer to some questions I asked to myself.
7 Could your ideas be portrayed in any other medium? If so which?
It is a question of whether or not the medium is the primary aspect of the work.
8 Which artists would you most like to blatantly rip off?
I draw inspiration from many artists but I never blatantly rip off somebody else’s work.
9 Why is your art made?
Because they need to be.
10 What does being an artist mean to you?
I haven’t come to a conclusion if it means something or not.
11 Are you happy with your reasons for making art? i.e Are there any trade offs that make life hard?
Life is hard either way.
12 When does your art become successful?
When I am happy with it.
13 What is art?
What I choose it to be.
14 How do you start the process of making work?
By identifying the criteria specific to the research.
15 Who prices your work? And how is the price decided upon?
Often based on the effort that goes into it, costs of production and galleries percentage.
16 What is your next; move, project, show etc?
My current installation is been shown In Chelsea/ New York. I need to reflect on it and then move on from there.
17 What are the pros and cons of the art market?
I can’t answer this.
18 Which pieces would you like to be remembered for?
What drives the work is the process and that is what I wish to be noted for most.
19 Any routine in making your artwork? If so what?
Studio preparation and cleaning, promotion, archiving.
20 What has been the biggest break in your career?
When I started to first show my work in galleries.
21 Who has been the biggest influence on you?
Everyone.
22 How many artworks have you given away and to whom?
I am generous when it come to donate works to Art Benefits and humanitarian causes but I am careful with friends because I need to respect people who actually pay for them. I have been donating to the Red Cross, Visual Aids, and other non-profit organizations.
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