“I am really stimulated to work in remote places, in a direct contact with nature”
AT: Where are you from and how/why you start engaging to art?
SC: I was born in Rome. I studied at the high school specializing in classical studies and after that it was a strange decision to start studying painting at the Academy of Fine Art. If I think about that period I can recognise a mix of coincidences, lack of awareness, empathy. The same empathy is essential in my work right now.
AT: When did it become serious?
SC: Some years ago, I was living in Berlin at that time. It was my first experience abroad, just after my degree in Painting. I remember how some kind of experiences become more important of others, I was starting to understand myself. It is still a mess, but at least I know I am a painter.
AT: Are there any person that have been significant in your progression as an artist?
SC: There have been some opportunity to meet important persons have trusted in my work, sharing a vision of beauty of the art.
AT: What’s your first approach to the work? Where does your process start?
SC: I use to spend a lot of time in my studio just looking at the canvas. I need to find the right concentration, a time where my eyes loose the borders of reality and set the vision free.
Falene,-mixed-media-on-canvas,-90×130-cm,-2017
AT: What are your favourite tools and materials for working?
SC: I mostly use mixed media in my painting in a quite wild way.
AT: Do you leave your work open to interpretation? Or do you think the viewer should engage with your work in a specific way?
SC: I don’t think that is important for me.
AT: How do you feel while you are working? You think of the final result?
SC: I am more focus in the experience of painting, the space and dialogue between me and the canvas.
AT: How do you understand when a work is finished?
SC: It’s just finished.
Glowing-Moon,-mixed-media-on-canvas,-180x200cm,-2017
AT: Where does the inspiration for the work come from? Do you find inspiration outside or it’s all inside you?
SC: I guess it’s important for my work find energy in the outside word. I am really stimulated to work in remote places, in a direct contact with nature.
AT: Do you think art can be learned or it is something innate?
SC: I don’ know.
AT: There are any artists that influenced your works? Why?
SC: I have a good exchange of ideas with some colleagues I really esteem. Speaking about known artists, I find high empathy with the work of Berlinde De Bruyckere, Tacita Dean, William Turner, Zoran Music.
AT: How important is for you the role of social media?
SC: I am not really in it.
Wonder,-mixed-media-on-canvas-200×260-cm,-2017
AT: What’s your opinion about the contemporary art system nowadays from your point of view as an artist?
SC: At the end I guess it is a question about choices how to take part of it.
AT: What do you find to be the most challenging or daunting thing about pursuing art? What is the most rewarding part of working as an artist?
SC: I don’t know.
AT: What do you do outside of painting?
SC: A lot of stuffs, mostly interesting.
AT: What are your goals and expectations for the future?
Expect nothing!
No old Thing under the sun, Installation view at Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Firenze (2018)
SABRINA CASADEI born 1985 in Rome /Lives and works in Rome EDUCATION AND RESIDENCIES 2018 Benaco Arte Residency / Sirmione / Garda Lake / Italy 2017 Rotes Haus / Artist in residence Kunstsommer Moritzburg/ Germany Lithographic Edition Project / Temple University Rome / Italy Innaturalia / Roseto della Sorpresa / Asti / Italy 2016 NKD / Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale / Dale / Norway 2014 Le CouveNt Artist in Residence / Le CouveNt / Auzits / France 2009 Diploma / Painting / Academy of Fine Arts Rome / Italy
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2018 No old thing under the sun (Solo) / Eduardo Secci Contemporary / Florence /Italy Art Paris Art Fair / Grand Palais / Paris / France MAPS / Societa’ Geografica Italiana / Villa Celimontana / Rome / Italy UNTITLED Art Fair / Eduardo Secci Contemporary / San Francisco / Usa ArteFiera / Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea/ Bologna / Italy 2017 Terre emerse (Solo) / Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea / Rome / Italy Invisibili Connessioni – Punctum / Archivio Storico e Museo Italgas / Torino / Italy Nella Casa Rossa / MAC Museo d'Arte Contemporanea / Lissone / Italy Malerbe / Artist studios - Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria / Rome / Italy Landina / CARS / Omegna (VB) / Italy 2016 A Thousand Miles Away – Residenze #2 (Solo) / Albumarte / Rome / Italy Bølge (Solo) / NKD / Dale Sunnfjord / Norway Dialogo Primo: Palia Vlahata / Saristra Festival / Cephalonia / Greek Comete /Chiesa dei Bigi / Grosseto / Italy Koelnmesse / Cologne / Germany
2013 Smottamenti. Frane (Solo) / LEM Laboratorio Estetica Moderna / Sassari / Italy Iside Contemporanea / Arcos Museo di Arte Contemporanea / Benevento / Italy Last Young. Under 35 in Italia / Villa Brivio / Nova Milanese (Mi) / Italy Arte in Sarpi / Progetto d’arte in via Paolo Sarpi / la Galleria all’aperto /Milan / Italy ComON StreetScape 2. L’arte invade Como / Pinacoteca Civica / Como / Italy 2012 Growing in Lightness (Solo) / Kaleidoskop / Berlin / Germany Big Size Art / Think | Cattleya / Milan / Italy InterRail un viaggio nell’immagine / Art’s Events Centro d’Arte Contemporanea / Torrecuso (Bn) / Italy The new Talents / Marchina Arte Contemporanea / Brescia / Italy 2011 Atti di decostruzion (Solo) / Marchina Arte Contemporanea / Brescia / Italy 2010 Adrenalina 1.2 / Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini / Rome / Italy Gra: Giovani Artisti a Roma / Museo Canonica / Rome, Italy 2008 Nuove materie della pittura (Solo) / Art’s Events Gallery / Torrecuso (Bn) / Italy AWARDS 2016 Premio Comete / Chiesa dei Bigi / Grosseto / Italy 2013 Premio Ora / L.E.M Laboratorio Estetica Moderna / Sassari / Italy 2012 Premio Basi per l’Arte Contemporanea / Biblioteca Comunale / Castiglione della Pescaia (Gr) / Italy 2010 Concorso giovani Artisti Fondazione Toniolo / Spazioarte Pisanello / Verona / Italy
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