26 January 2015
Q) When you started to have interest in painting?
A) Very soon! My father has always cultivated a passion for art, he experimented with painting and now focuses on sculpture. Thanks to my parents I could travel a lot with them, visit museums and discover new horizons, with them I have a passion for everything that was new for me. I understand that the painting was in my case in order to experience new sensations and emotions.
Q) How is your art linked with women?
A) I Work on the feminine works because I'm interested in the pursuit of "transformation", and I think the women's pay to this; then with the technique of watercolor I can just implement this transformation: from any form, from any woman portrayed is like if it would be oozing something.
Q) Your women take on many different looks and attitudes, are constantly "movement". You find that in your drawings there is also a study on your evolution like woman and artist?
A) Surely there is, but is not thought. I am interested - as art therapist - at art as an instrument of healing, and can assure you that this has altered my being a woman and artist; My women are always in continuous transformation, because I like to investigate inside of my works and whether others can see and investigate in a subjective way something of themselves makes me very happy.
Q) Each painting was born in a place: I am curious to know where are your source.
A) Come around, thanks to encounters with others, when I went to Milan to visit the Brera Academy where I study. One thing I love is staying on the subway and see so many different people, each with their own thoughts, their movements, tics, gestures, grimaces. Watercolors I find that give the right plant material in order to display correctly this evolution of people.
Q) You're also an art therapist: how your business councils with making art?
A) They are totally the same thing, the art is a language, as may be the word. Art is an emotional communication; I happen to work with people who don't have tools to communicate, I help them to find the tool that best suited to express and take care of themselves. Any distress does not necessarily have to be seen as limiting, I invite them to find in an outlet, an instrument of cure.
Q) We are in the theme of art therapy: which project you have in the heart? And which, instead, would you like to accomplish?
A) Definitely take in my heart a project that I'm working with a group of people with both physical and mental problems, that I ran my first work, to which they I am most related. This work focuses on the 4 elements (air, fire, Earth and water), and now we are working on Earth; These works should be made continuously and take time, but I can guarantee more positive feedback because you entrusted to me and gave me confidence right from the beginning. In the future I'd like to do a project on women victims of violence: we had to start a lab but have not got the funds, so we had to set it aside. It is a very challenging project but at the same time very nice, because a woman victim of discomfort has a personal way of seeing and knowing that they are as a woman and this ensures that the work is more challenging, but also very inspiring.
Q) Seeing your works you notice a great experimentation with painting techniques. Which technique do you use most?
A) The watercolor is a technique that I learned practically self-taught, because in the Academy we had a smattering of various techniques. As I said before the watercolor has an unpredictable component, is a fluid that mixes with water and then you have to measure out very well. I love it because it is a perfect optical provocateur: I'm curious about seeing what lies below and is close to my research.
Q) In your paintings I known that when you arrive to hair let slip the color. It is your personal technique or is there a hidden message?
A) Yes: the idea that there is not a definite boundary, the hair will not become a physical border; is an element that decomposes with water; in my drawings hair become roots, something that escapes from your head, crossing borders and fences. Like me on the other hand, I do not want borders and don't like to have limits and if you can make this in work makes me very happy.
Q) Since time immemorial you know that the artist is not a leisure activity, but a real job. What do you think about the commercialization of art?
A) I find it very limiting. In my being an artist and a therapist does not bind very much at what I do!! If you can sell is definitely a great satisfaction, but I hope that art is a different thing from the trade.
Q) Do you have a particular aspiration at the moment (or a future aspiration)?
A) I don't know... I would do so many things, I focus on art therapy in most areas, but I'd also like to get back to work in the field of restoration, a beautiful world but also very strange. Right now the experimentation is giving me a lot of motivation and it is on this that I want to try my hand!
Chiara Giglio
(Riproduzione riservata)
A) Very soon! My father has always cultivated a passion for art, he experimented with painting and now focuses on sculpture. Thanks to my parents I could travel a lot with them, visit museums and discover new horizons, with them I have a passion for everything that was new for me. I understand that the painting was in my case in order to experience new sensations and emotions.
Q) How is your art linked with women?
A) I Work on the feminine works because I'm interested in the pursuit of "transformation", and I think the women's pay to this; then with the technique of watercolor I can just implement this transformation: from any form, from any woman portrayed is like if it would be oozing something.
Q) Your women take on many different looks and attitudes, are constantly "movement". You find that in your drawings there is also a study on your evolution like woman and artist?
A) Surely there is, but is not thought. I am interested - as art therapist - at art as an instrument of healing, and can assure you that this has altered my being a woman and artist; My women are always in continuous transformation, because I like to investigate inside of my works and whether others can see and investigate in a subjective way something of themselves makes me very happy.
Q) Each painting was born in a place: I am curious to know where are your source.
A) Come around, thanks to encounters with others, when I went to Milan to visit the Brera Academy where I study. One thing I love is staying on the subway and see so many different people, each with their own thoughts, their movements, tics, gestures, grimaces. Watercolors I find that give the right plant material in order to display correctly this evolution of people.
Q) You're also an art therapist: how your business councils with making art?
A) They are totally the same thing, the art is a language, as may be the word. Art is an emotional communication; I happen to work with people who don't have tools to communicate, I help them to find the tool that best suited to express and take care of themselves. Any distress does not necessarily have to be seen as limiting, I invite them to find in an outlet, an instrument of cure.
Q) We are in the theme of art therapy: which project you have in the heart? And which, instead, would you like to accomplish?
A) Definitely take in my heart a project that I'm working with a group of people with both physical and mental problems, that I ran my first work, to which they I am most related. This work focuses on the 4 elements (air, fire, Earth and water), and now we are working on Earth; These works should be made continuously and take time, but I can guarantee more positive feedback because you entrusted to me and gave me confidence right from the beginning. In the future I'd like to do a project on women victims of violence: we had to start a lab but have not got the funds, so we had to set it aside. It is a very challenging project but at the same time very nice, because a woman victim of discomfort has a personal way of seeing and knowing that they are as a woman and this ensures that the work is more challenging, but also very inspiring.
Q) Seeing your works you notice a great experimentation with painting techniques. Which technique do you use most?
A) The watercolor is a technique that I learned practically self-taught, because in the Academy we had a smattering of various techniques. As I said before the watercolor has an unpredictable component, is a fluid that mixes with water and then you have to measure out very well. I love it because it is a perfect optical provocateur: I'm curious about seeing what lies below and is close to my research.
Q) In your paintings I known that when you arrive to hair let slip the color. It is your personal technique or is there a hidden message?
A) Yes: the idea that there is not a definite boundary, the hair will not become a physical border; is an element that decomposes with water; in my drawings hair become roots, something that escapes from your head, crossing borders and fences. Like me on the other hand, I do not want borders and don't like to have limits and if you can make this in work makes me very happy.
Q) Since time immemorial you know that the artist is not a leisure activity, but a real job. What do you think about the commercialization of art?
A) I find it very limiting. In my being an artist and a therapist does not bind very much at what I do!! If you can sell is definitely a great satisfaction, but I hope that art is a different thing from the trade.
Q) Do you have a particular aspiration at the moment (or a future aspiration)?
A) I don't know... I would do so many things, I focus on art therapy in most areas, but I'd also like to get back to work in the field of restoration, a beautiful world but also very strange. Right now the experimentation is giving me a lot of motivation and it is on this that I want to try my hand!
Chiara Giglio
(Riproduzione riservata)
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