Blindness - Interview with Carmen Sarbu
25 January 2015
Q) What does it mean for you to make art?

A) Art for me is a way to live, a reason to be and express myself. I can't imagine my life without art. I feel a great emotion not only in creating, I just go into a church and see the large frescoes for make me feel the goosebumps.

Q) Were you influenced by your culture and from the countries you've visited?

A) I think of it, unconsciously of my culture I carry in the art of great icons, even though now my art is different. Now I prefer to dedicate myself to the human figure. But I never forget my culture.

Q) Who is Carmen "woman - artist"?

A) Carmen is both woman and artist, I am very lonely. When I create I live moments of isolation, but when I finish I wanted to go out, see friends. I'm curious to experience everything that surrounds me.

Q) Who inspires you?

A) The inspiration for me get creating, working many times without having an idea: I start with make a line and in the end is born an entire world. Other times I have clear the subject and I know well what I want to do.

Q) How do you see your art in 20 years?

A) I see my art is different, every passing I notice more and more differences. I want to do better and better. Certainly among 20 years my art will evolve in better.

Q) The title of the exhibition is "blindness". As it combines this term with the painting?

A) Are two contradictory terms indeed. In my series of watercolors I wanted to explore the human subject with blindness, unable to see the objective reality. I don't want to bring out only the weaknesses of man, but most hidden feelings of our nature and how the time and the story changes us.

Q) In your paintings appears 4 or 5 figures. Is it a coincidence?

A) Yes, it is a coincidence dictated by composition. I didn't think the number as a symbol.

Q) Future projects?

A) I have many projects yet to be realized. I started working on a series titled "white shadows", where the human figures are immersed in landscapes. And another project, this time bigger and laborious: a series of paintings called "mutilated dreams", where I will return to my origins by drawing icons profane and left deliberate incomplete, where there are immigrants. People apparently free, but actually left in complete degradation.

07/11/2014

Chiara Giglio
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