BACK............................. Working Spaces

I always liked to work in studio spaces which look like a constantly changing set design.

My work "Pandemonium" has been created in a very small dark room in Milano where sun never entered.

It was full of antique furniture,books and even sculptures of another artist who was living with me.

How could a forty meter long work be created in a 20 meter room? As you can judge by the result: very well!

Infact I've never seen anything worthwhile being created in numerous academies with which Rome is full, and yet they offer

to the artists in residence enormous, well lit, luxurious studios .

My studio in Toronto was full of play of light and shade,but it was located in a small room.

The room, traversed by many semi transparent curtains, made the space look like a theater set design which is constantly changing.

All the objects were easily moovable, there was nothing stable or definite.

Moreover, only shadows of the objects were visible through the curtains.It was a "philosophical"studio.

There was no furniture in the traditional sense of the word: lampshade would serve as a separè or a wall for exhibiting art work.

Sometimes I would create a little studio within a big one with separè.

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My studio in Testaccio, Rome,Italy

MY STUDIO IN ROME WAS IN AN ABANDONED BUILDING IN TESTACCIO AREA.

INSIDE I HAD A STUDIO OF CERAMICS, WHILE OUTSIDE I WORKED ON THEATER PROJECTS(STAGE DESIGN FOR BRUNO ACETELLA'S PRODUCTION "IL PESCIOLINO LUCCENTE" WAS CREATED THERE).IF ONE NORMALLY WORKS UNDER THE PORCH, I WAS WORKING ON THE PORCH.

THE STUDIO WAS MOST FASCINATING BECAUSE WHILE CREATING ART I WAS IN THE SAME TIME IN THE MIDDLE OF LIFE WHICH LOOKED LIKE A SURREAL PLAY.

TESTACCIO IS AN INTERESTING DISTRICT, NEAR BY WAS LOCATED GYPSY CAMP, SO I COULD SEE COLOURFULL FIGURES COMING AND GOING DOWN THE STREET, THERE WERE ALSO STABLES WITH HORSES AND ANCIENT CARRIAGES TROTTING UP AND DOWNTHE STREET.THERE WERE OFTEN EPISODES OF VIOLENCE-SOMEBODY WILL BE BEATING UP ANOTHER PERSON IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PIAZZA AND NOBODY WOULD PAY ATTENTION.SOMETIMES AN IMPORTANT GYPSY BOSS IN AN ENORMOUS CADILLAC WOULD DISCUSS BYING A HORSE WITH AN ITALIAN HORSE BREEDER,ETC.

EX SLAUGHTER HOUSE WHERE MY STUDIO WAS LOCATED WAS LIKE MY COLLAGE "PANDEMONIUM"RE-CREATED WITH REAL,THREE-DIMENTIONAL OBJECTS.IT WAS A MOST AMAZING COLLECTION OF BROKEN OBJECTS UNITED UNDER ONE ROOF-THERE WERE MARBLE TABLES,ANCIENT INSTRIMENTS,MILLIONS OF TOYS AND ELEGANT BIRD CAGES, ANCIENT LAMPS,LEATHER CHAIRS,ETC.BUT NOW THEY HAD A NEW FUNCTION-THEY WERE TOYS TO BE PLAYED WITH,TOYS COLLECTED BY A NAIF DREAMER,ANOTONIO,AN ANARCHIST WHO HAS OCCUPIED THE SPACE AND GAVE ME AND OTHER ARTISTS HOSPITALITY.