{"id":17673,"date":"2023-05-15T10:06:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T08:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinquerossoarte.com\/?p=17673"},"modified":"2023-05-16T12:20:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T10:20:50","slug":"the-real-world-questions-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinquerossoarte.com\/en\/the-real-world-questions-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Paola Grifone – The real world questions me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

She calls herself permeable, Maria Paola Grifone. Permeable to so many stimuli, from a shadow on a wall to a news story, which she feels the need to investigate through art. Painting<\/strong> in order to know, then, as she explains in very clear words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Paola, can you tell us about your path?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went to a traditional art school, where they still drew a lot, and perhaps that is why I am so attached to copying from life. Later I attended a course for fashion designers, but I realised that I was more interested in fashion illustration than in making models, so I decided to enrol at the Academy of Fine Arts. Here I took the painting course and was able to deepen my artistic identity, including through exhibitions and everything that revolved around that environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What techniques do you usually use?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It depends a lot on the periods. The different techniques<\/strong> I use are united by their immediacy of execution. So, for example, Indian ink on glossy paper<\/strong> allows me a direct execution; I don’t need to make sketches or study the subject, what happens on paper is the result of a continuous flow between me, the subject itself and what I use to represent it, in this case Indian ink. In this last period I am using charcoal, fusage, powdered graphite on paper<\/strong> or prepared canvas<\/strong>. Let’s say that I use extremes of matter: Indian ink<\/strong> is very liquid, and glides on paper, while graphite powder<\/strong>, or charcoal<\/strong>, are dry materials, i.e. the exact opposite. I still don’t understand if there is a reason for my going from one extreme to the other. In any case, for me technique cannot be distinguished from content. If I use oil or acrylic, for example, it is because what I want to express can only be expressed with oil or acrylic. This game of ‘opposites’ has led me to the essentiality of black and white<\/strong>, which has become indispensable for my expressive needs. It is a contrast that brings out the most human contradictions: life and death, light and darkness… everything that we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are your sources of inspiration?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not easy to answer this question. Let’s say I am slowly discovering them, I am becoming aware of them. I find inspiration by observing reality, starting with objects, or faces, for example. I have done some work on shadows on walls, to give another example. I realised that when my gaze rests on something, I have to investigate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lately I have been attracted to topical issues, so I am working on war and suffering. In this case my sources are the media, from newspapers to the web. I look for and look at endless images, everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am also inspired by music – which I listen to daily – music videos, or films. Even a conversation or an article can stimulate me, perhaps to reflect on a social or psychological aspect. I am very permeable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I like to look, I like to listen, and if something strikes me I feel the need to explore it and represent it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently on cinquerossoarte.com there are The Hidden Forms, Equilibrium, Inside Me and Black Vase. What can you tell us about these works?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are objects represented from life, with which I have an emotional connection. What they have in common is that they are containers. They are not empty, in short. I liked to play – once again – with opposites: the full and the empty in a white, almost eternal space, without connotations. The technique I used, Indian ink on photographic paper<\/strong>, allowed me to achieve that immediacy I mentioned. It is a non-control that leaves room for what freely happens while I paint, even when it comes to ‘mistakes’: often it is these that surprise me and take the image where I want it. It is a technique of realisation, but it is also a metaphor for life, which works just like this, for unforeseen events and smudges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are you working on at the moment?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the moment I am investigating a very hot topic, which is the relationship between man and technology. What I feel is emerging and what I represent is a humanity that, faced with complexity, seeks an escape route. They are figures immersed in a physical void, with a lot of white underlining this distance between us and reality. You will soon see them on cinquerossoarte.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discover Artworks by Maria Paola Grifone!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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