Marta Battocchio: art can make an emotion concrete and material
I am a graphic designer and illustrator, I mostly deal with digitally produced caricatures and I like to range across different fields: vector illustrations, logos, pixelart, comics, ink drawings and watercolours. What I want for my works is that they correspond to the desires of their users, it is different when I create graphics for myself, where there is no defined purpose. In these cases I dedicate myself to the emotion or memory of the moment, giving it a shape to make it material and concrete.
Luca Genovese: his artistic world in constant evolution
Drawing has been with me since I was a child, it has always been a way to distract me. In my artistic growth, understanding the value of authenticity was fundamental.
BAO: What is your art? that you want to communicate and convey?
Luca: I never paused to reflect on what my “art” should be, what I realize is spontaneous and it is constantly evolving. In my illustrations there is not always a message that I want to convey, my purpose is to create curiosity in the observer.
“I would describe myself as a multidisciplinary artist”
Colours, shapes, illustrations and much more: this is Simona Alunni’s world.
BAO: How would you define your art? What do you want to communicate and transmit?
Simona: From geometric shapes to doodles, from animations to illustrations. I would define myself as a multidisciplinary artist. I like trying new things, experimenting, trying things out. I like to tell what’s on my mind in a fun and colourful way.
A hanging heart: constantly evolving styles and shapes
My art evolves every day, this allows me not to turn off my curiosity.
BAO: What is your art? What do you want to communicate and transmit?
Martina: I can’t define with certainty what my art is because it evolves every day in different styles and forms!
I believe this peculiarity is fundamental for me because it allows me to improve and not extinguish my curiosity to discover new things.
I have always tried to convey my state of mind, my personal story, my fears, my achievements and my cancer journey through small illustrations and phrases to help anyone who is facing my same situations.
Giulia: I am my poetry
My poetry was born because I live on the tip of my heart. Because, just like Atlas, I hold a world above my shoulders that pains and strains me. And poetry is the horizon to which I look with hope.
BAO: What is your art? What do you want to communicate and convey?
Giulia: My art is poetry. It is the most sincere and clear way I have to convey what I feel in my heart.
BAO: How did it come about? Tell us about episodes in the past related to your passion and your art.
Giulia: It may seem incredible, but I wrote my first poem without realising it. After some time in which I became aware that I was starting to write, I took my papers in hand and realised that I had written a poem, a real poem. It was a unique emotion: it was like realising how beautiful life is, and at the same time how simple it can sometimes be.
Bianca: her vision of the world through her “finger drawings”
I don’t think I can define the moment when this passion was born, I think I find it every day in everything I see and do.
BAO: What is your art? What do you want to communicate and convey?
BIANCA: My art is nothing more than my way of seeing the world.
I find it hard to really believe in it, but I can’t help it.
I’ve never given much thought to what I wanted to say, but to what I wanted to show.
I believe that mine is basically a work of synthesis, from a complete image I take away and take away until the essential remains, which is what I have left, what I carry inside me. I often realise that what comes out is much more than I thought I wanted to say, as if the act of creating taught me something about myself and my way of seeing things.
Shivalika: art can make us overcome our fears
BAO: How did your passion start?
Shivalika: When I was a little girl I used see my father painting with colours on canvas with his favourite brushes, used old brushes with different colours layers coated on it. I always wanted to hold that brush and paint fearlessly all my fears on canvas, this is how my art journey started.
BAO: How would you define your art? What do you want to communicate and convey?
Shivalika: I draw my emotions on canvas, I am grateful that I have a medium through which I can express myself and a canvas to trust with my emotions, emotions are the only key of life. Our lives move with emotions, we experience different emotions, we hide them from ourselves and art hold your hand to go on fearlessly, to express yourself. So that you can be yourself.
Caterina: illustrations as a break from the world
Caterina: I deal with illustrations. I try to create intimate images, a moment of reflection, a stop from the world that runs fast, so my characters are always represented with their eyes closed. They are resting, almost as if in meditation.
Mavi’s conceptual and digital art
Mavi: My art is mainly conceptual. I like to explore and experiment with different artistic techniques in both digital and traditional art. What I hope to convey with my works are feelings, emotions, moods and sometimes even some social provocation. I am very attached to the female subject, as I find it gives me the best way to express myself. I also consider myself a feminist, so I like to represent strong women in their sensitivity and delicacy.
Eleonora, the search for beauty through photography
BAO: WHAT IS YOUR ART? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO COMMUNICATE AND TRANSMIT?
Eleonora: My main art is photography, but I also create videos.
BAO: HOW IT STARTED, TELL US ABOUT EPISODES IN THE PAST RELATED TO YOUR PASSION AND YOUR ART.
Eleonora: My passion for photography has been with me since I was a child, since I used to watch my father take photos during our holidays around the world. I was fascinated by his search for interesting glimpses, hidden from the view of all the other passers-by and, as a result, I trained my eyes to look for beauty everywhere, and then I started to take photographs myself.
