has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
(2010- watercolor, wood, paper, digital frame, animation (0:01:35) 27,5 x 32,5 x 10 cm)
Peeping in others life is always an exciting experiment. Nowdays the reality shows are very popular. It is also not a question the voyerism transfixes the different fields of art. The main aspects of the peeping is the action of the observation. To be on the lurk was always the part of the human history.
In the XVIII. century the book „The Devil upon Two Sticks” by Alain-René Le Sage also shows different types of lives to the reader as he lifts the roofs of the houses in Paris and let a little insight in the peoples life for us.
I am also opening up my life, but I have no scandal or exciting dirty moments. I am showing my static and a bit boring daily moments of my life. The scene is my kitchen where I always spend a lot of time. It is also a symbolic space of the housewifes.
When I was in the Netherlands Johannes Vermeer had a big influence on me. He is also inspirated this work. I like the way how he use the colour and the light. I tried to move the atmosphere of his painting to the present. I try to tell my story with the implement of animation.
Unfortunately the slogans have covered Venice. Are anywhere,underfoot...also in the porch of the Doge's Palace...
[ Sfortunatamente la pubblicità oramai ricopre Venezia:
la trovi ovunque, sotto i tuoi piedi, sopra la cupola di una chiesa, ti insegue dentro il portico del Palazzo Ducale... ]
People walking indifferent into the reflections of the city
[Le persone camminano indifferenti tra i riflessi della città]
