q)You occasionally use very famous images in your work, such as Kate Moss or
Salvador Dali. Do you always base your paintings off of real people?
a)It depends on my moods…on the phases of the moon…..on the music I’ve in
mind…I never know what I’ll do….the game is always new and different every
time….but…sure I’m very interested in weird fashion….and in my art yes there
is so much fashion,Salvador Dalì sure….Kate Moss(oh I love her…..),Mickey
Mouse and Diamanda Galas…my natural madness…
q)Collage is such an interesting medium because you can piece together some
many different forms of inspiration in one painting. What first got you
interested in working with collage?
a)Oh…..for 14-15 years I painted only in black and white with tons of black
Indian ink…I needed of colours and to experiments with other materials….it
was natural to switch to colour….though I think that the colour,much colour ,
there is in the thousand shades between black and white.
q)Did you read magazines as kid? Do you read magazines now? If so, which
were/are your favorites?
a)Many,many,many…. I read especially many books but also magazines…..some
of my favourite...:Juxtapoz,Ozon,i-D mag, Dazed & Confused, chaos-
mag,Verve,Soma mag,Ion Mag,Hi-Fructose, NY Arts Magazine, Frieze
Magazine…..a lot of other…..
….when I was a kid I read only horror books...I looked only horror movies…I
thought only horror ideas….
q)I’ve read that you often work on zines. How did you first get interested in
making/ contributing to zines? It’s really interesting because in America, zines
were really big in the 1990’s, as a part of movement of do-it-yourself culture, as
a part of rebelling against the magazine world. They are slowly trickling back
into the mainstream. But I am interested to know how that translates overseas.
a)I started doing this strange work in 1995…I drew crazy comics then….The
fantastic ‘’Stripburger’’ magazine published my first comics….There was a
fervent movement then in Eastern Europe,many fantastic creative people
there….many bands…fantastic music…..many many wonderful zines….yes I
started to draw there, in Eastern Europe….not in Italy,strange true…?...a
case…a wonderful case…I’ve great memories of those early years.
q)A lot of your images seem to deal with the media’s effect on women and
domesticity. You mix images typically found in a women’s fashion magazine,
and turn them into these amazing surrealist art forms. Would you say that your
work has a feminist tone to it?
a) Maybe yes….maybe not….my works have yes a feminist tone surely….a bit of
anarchic feminist tone too….a crazy queer tone too….an alien tone very much…
strange beings inhabit my artworks…
q)What would you say is the mission statement of your art? What do you hope
your art achieves?
a) I hope to continue to draw,to draw,to draw …..to continue to do this fantastic
shamanic journey for all the days of my life…
q)Do you think fashion is art?
a)Sure… a formidable exquisite art form…
q)Do you dress as interesting as your art?
a)Oh not…. I'm too lazy to spend time to choose my own clothes…but my heart
and my mind yes….they dress with crazy clothes every day….
q)How did you come up with idea for your wacky website…. I love it. Often
times websites seem like an afterthought, but yours really seems like an
extension of your work!
a)Thanx…you’re really very kind….I’m not good to create web sites….I can do
a few things with my Dreamweaver… I did everything by myself ...how many
animated gifs true….?I love them so much…..!!!!!
q)What projects can look forward from you in the future?
a) …I'm working on a show that I will do in the coming months in Kiev,and I’ve
to prepare something for other 2 shows always in the next months....I've started
just in these days my new tarot deck and my new comic book....working on some
t-shirts....to my interviews…a lot of interesting things yes....!
q)Anything else you want to add?
a)thanx!
