Maria Chiara Valacchi: Does the place you work, the light you use and the “horror vacui” of the blank canvas; generate an essential relationship? Or are these elements detached from the final result?
Ivan Seal: Headspace: the studio is an ongoing conceptual exercise. An escape: Trap the studio is a filter Separated: perspective. A dance: my mother is a ballroom dancer. Movement towards, around and away: a relationship. A pause: take a Deep breath: a pause. Interupting the now: out of joint - pkd knew - spinning on itself. Flowers. A gap: a black hole. A hole: a sum. All light illuminates: as all light is different, pointlessness of perfection. The disaster: the work. A stone thrown into a still lake: Free improv_hypercognative:time travel. A body slid into a pond: seeing not looking. A mark is made and all is ruined: non-thought solutions to the idea of movement
MCV: Do you approach the question of language with attention or do you think that the research of a personal and unusual identity is far from the goals of making art?
IS: Personal expression as glitch, history as error, identity as questionable, truth as lie
MCV: When did you realize you are a professional painter?
IS: Between 1996 and 2005
MCV: Explain your work on a technical level: materials and construction of the work of art.
IS: The background precedes the foreground, and loop
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Around The Studios
Interview to Ivan Seal
Four short questions by Maria Chiara Valacchi to renowned painters around the world; from the conceptual problem of "Language" to the relationship with the space where they paint, to virtually enter inside their studios and minds!
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"Around The Studio" is curated by Maria Chiara Valacchi and Antonio Di Mino
