Interview with Nicola Del Vigo
q)So, can you tell me a little about yourself? Full name, age,
some
background info, etc?
a)I was born in La Spezia in 1975. I studied in a businnes school, but during the university after 3 years I decided to stop this tipe of study and to start my study in art.
I studied art in Bologna where now I work and I live.
a)I decided 8 years ago when I started my studies.
a)to understand my works I have to speak about my life.I love looking people, dreaming about them, building their hypothentical identities. It’s like when you are in the subway and you imagine somebody else’s life in a short time. In my works I use interesting looks to create what I felt looking the person who catch me. My pieces names never belong to the subjects.
a)I get influenced from different expression of art.I get closer to the american pop art, as an example.
everything come together?
a)I approach the creations as new pieces selecting the photos of the model I will use.After that I will cut the photo; then when I think that the picture is fine I reproduce the model on the canvas.
q) What’s your favorite medium to work in, and why?
a) My favorite medium to work is my hands, I love painting my picture directly with my hands. During a stage in the modern art gallery of Bologna I learnt painting looking the children.In particular children which approach to the color, the material.
a)I don’t have a favorite art web site, I look around in the network searching good works.
help out?
a)I don’t use any computer tools, for me is very important hand done.
Do it good, do it bad, do it again.
I use computer tools to organize and spread my work.
q) What, in your opinion, are the best and worst places to
exhibit artwork?
a) I don’t have specific opinion about this, I think people are used to images, for this reason it’s harder to catch people’s attention on your work.
q) I’m always interested in where an artist find their
inspiration. Where do you find yours?
a)I find my inspiration in every day’s life, in normal situations, the real problem is that most of people in not able to see them.
a)I think that the work is the extention of the artist’s life, for this reason my work changes on my everyday’s life moods.The person reactions to my work depends on the sensation that they feel looking at them.
a)Creation art is a lucky appearance of my life, in general I have a very normal life, I love drinking bear whith my friends in a pub, I love watching rugby, I love boxing, I love going around in Bologna on my bicycle and I love listening to music and playing music as a dj.
artists face today?
a)I think the first problem to face is that living doing art is very hard in a lot of countries, expecially in Italy.
art or can anyone can be taught?
a)I think lots of peoples could do art but most of them think this is a waste of time(this thought is very diffuse in Italy unfortunately).
q) What advice would you give to younger up and coming artist?
a)Today I haven’t nothing to tell to young artist because I’m a young artist!I don’t have any advices to give.When I’m doing my art I am the luckiest man in the world.For a few hours I stay far from reality: it is beautiful this is the most important side of doing art.
a) My favorite artist are:
David Salle, Jenny Saville, Basquiat, Caravaggio, Veemer, Hopper ,George De La Tour, Burri, Schiele Van Gogh Toulose Loutrec, Andy Warhol….
In New York in Chelsea there are a lot of very very beautiful galleries.
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