Saturday, 23 February 2013

_ice-creams.

Underlining_ ice-creams. If you would like to eat the best ice cream in Sydney you must go to Messina. Once you get your 4 scoops, you should turn behind to look at the opposite wall from the ice-cream counter.

All the wall is illustrated by Jeremyville; an Aussie artist with international fame. He used to work from his studio in Bondi Beach and NY city, and he has been in the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, the Colette in Paris, the Giant Robot in NY ect.

Was June of last year when I left my country, and before coming in Oz I was forced by my mum to clean the basement of all my useless stuff. Was hot and a melted packaged icecream was in my hand when I discovered a ripped comic in an old cardboard box: "Coccobillevolissimevolmente" by Jacovitti.

Jacovitti worked for the most famous Italian newspapers after the forties, and worked with people like Federico Fellini and contributed to rebuilding the Italian popular culture after the Second World War.

Two different artists, born, raised and worked in different cultural environments, with a different background knowledge but a similar way to imagine their quirky characters and the crowded world in which they lived.

The ice-creams taste experiences are completely different. Our Artists less.

 Jeremyville Studios
 - Lamrock Av. and Campbell Parade, Bondi Beach
 - SoHo NYC

Benito Franco Jacovitti (Rome, 19.01.1915  / 13.03.1988)

Thursday, 14 February 2013

_ bricks




















Underlining_ bricks. My lovely grandmother always used to say to put one brick after another to build my life. When I was young the only bricks that I loved to put one after the other was Lego. I wasn't interested about my life or my future, just waiting for my new Lego box at Christmas or my birthday and spend hours on the dusty carpet of my parents living room to play. I never liked to follow the instructions, often I just followed my fantasy or my insight. Once finished, I used to destroy the masterpiece to start all over again.
I think Lego was a toy that helped my artistic skills; a toy useful to grow.

Nathan Sawaya, 39years old, NY based artist, keeps placing one brick in front of the other to express his art. He's not a kind of Peter Pan syndrome, just the Lego brick is his brush and the space his canvas.

His grandmother would be really proud.

Nathan Sawaya "The art of the Brick".  ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. November 17, 2012 - April 14, 2013

http://brickartist.com/