WE CAN EXPAND CREATIVITY INTO COLLABORATION.
Bed-in art has started off its activity both as a residence for young artists and as a laboratory of visual production.
In less than year since its opening the house has contributed to the development of a good number of projects and collaborations with other artists.
Friday, December 29, 2006
cosa stai cercando ? un confine tra la societa' e le sue regole e l'abbandono di tutto un confine tra la realta' e il sogno un confine tra la citta' e la natura un confine tra me e gli altri
il confine e' il luogo di un conflitto? il confine riguarda un limite ci sono molte cose da integrare e molti sono i confini da attraversare mi piacerebbe essere un pittore e attraversare il confine tra realta' e sogno dipingendo le forme e i colori di un nuovo inizio il nomadismo e' desiderio di ricerca dell'altro alla ricerca di una nuova struttura che includa piu' soggetti
da dove sei partita? dal bisogno di essere piu' vicino alla mia umanita' e di provare a descrivere il mio disagio ci sono anche molte idee politiche e sociali nella mia mente voglio e devo orientarmi in tutto questo cosi' il limite del mio pensare e l'impossibilita' di trovare soluzioni viene fuori evidentemente nella frammentarieta' della mia visione
Today I will really put some time in replying, I looked at the videos, they look really interesting! Too bad they are small for the web, I especially like the clothes. I would really love to come to Naples again, but at the moment I don't know when I will come again.
I don't think I ever saw your garden? I thought you didn't have a garden or did you move to another appartment?
Did Ricardo (the sculptor) tell you that I met him in London at the Frieze Art Fair? But then later we got seperated and I didn't see him anymore! I also met Padrig (the english artist with the beard that lives in Naples), that was really a nice surprise. The gallery that he is with looks interesting.
Ok, let me answer those old questions now... First I will put your question and then I will try to answer! But they are difficult questions, so maybe it will become messy! Also one more did I tell you I saw this movie Shogun Assassin? With the samurai and the baby called Daigoro? It was really funny to see it, every time they would say daigoro I had to think of you and your dog! He is really a lot like this baby! It was really a nice moment.
----What moves you? I mean what is important for your inspiration... what moves your ideas and your paintings and what moves you every day to be a painter?
There is really no short answer for this question. I think there is not one inspiration or one thing that makes me inspired. It can be a lot of different things. Sometimes I have a color I would like to use or a certain shape or composition that I am interested in. So then I will search for a way to develop this into a painting. But this is more for paintings. In general I think I have this need to communicate something to other people. In a way sometimes I wish I was a movie director or a writer (of novels), so maybe that is why I paint the things I paint, it is painting like other people write a book or make a movie. That's how it feels for me sometimes. It is just that for me my ideas come out in the best way when I paint. For the last year, there are more political and social ideas coming into the work. I am not trying to educate people or moralize, but I do try to discuss some of these things, but in the way that one person can do something, which is not very much. So the limitations of my thought and the impossibility of coming up with a solution also comes through in the work. If this makes any sense?
----What is the future of the city? I mean the concept of city...in general I mean in your paintings there are waste and rubbles and people that live their normal life in this urban jungle is it your idea of future or what is it?
I am not sure if my paintings are the future. I think in a way they are, but they are also an alternative. For me again it is about the temporarity of existence and of the need that things should be more durable, how everything in life and the way society is organized everything is based on consumption and quick construction, while I think things should last longer and things should be done with a lot of the future in mind. So for me it is also trying to answer the question of how to live responsibly, but just for me personally. So in a way I think the city should be destroyed, or maybe society should be destroyed, so we can start with a fresh beginning. Because I think we really need to have a radical change. That is also the reason I sometimes paint tents and huts and wooden constructed houses, because that is like going back to the beginning. To start again. But also it doesn't mean that it will be ok once you start again, probably the same mistakes or different mistakse will be made, so in the end everything still might be wrong.
---will be the city a place for crossing conflicts?
I don't know how you mean this? Like the answer above, for me it is not really about the city or the countryside, for me the buildings are more about (western) society with all its laws and rules and how we maybe need to destroy it or rebuild it. Because a lot of things are left out that need to be incorporated in a new 'structure'.
---could you talk me more about your paintings and what they portrey?
I hope you can already understand more of the work with the things I wrote above. I will attach 2 new works, if you have more questions that is ok, I like answering it is a good practice for me to explain my ideas, which can be really difficult... I am quite happy with the answers I gave, also for me it makes it more clear to myself!
Hope you are well, my love to Antonio and the rest as well, my friends in London who are from Italy were saying that there was a lot of chaos in Naples at the moment that there are killings every day? Is it really worse now than before, I hope you are well,
Hope to hear from you soon! Love Willem
Peter Coffin Untitled (Tree Pants) 2006 Jeans / Variable dimensions
Hello Valeria,
I really enjoy your video site. "Natural" and "Life" are great. Very cool! I hope to see you soon. Justin and I share a studio and we're hanging out lots. James is also an interesting artist and very nice guy.. I like his work very much. Its been a long time since I've been in Naples.
the video retraces the constrution of PIERRE YVES LE DUC 'work at the Naples Archeological Museum ....the video is a making of GU and also an experimental work of the atist VALERIA BORRELLI the images are filmed in stop motion technique, compressing 20 dys work into 9 minutes, sounds and the pace of work as the technicians and the artist installed Gu prior to presenting the work to the Neapolitan public
