Castiglioni

Via Giuseppe Luosi, 30, 20131 Milan

MON - TUE CLOSED
WED - FRI 2:30 / 7:00 PM
SAT 11:30 / 6:00 PM
SUN CLOSED

ARTISTS:
Stefano De Paolis
Fabio Mauri (Collezione Ramo)

Stefano De Paolis answers questions from
Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, curator of the Ramo Collection

Give a definition of what drawing is for you.

I perceive drawing as something very close to thought itself, and so I find it to be a particularly abstract and becoming language; or all in power.

What is your relationship with drawing? And with the history of Italian art of the last century?

My relationship with drawing has always been rather immediate, compared to other languages; I find that this is due to a certain temperament of mine that is well suited to those qualities that are peculiar to drawing, at least in its most design-oriented sense.
The history of twentieth-century Italian art, on the other hand, is a very interesting territory, where I have discovered figures and practices with whom I have been able to establish a dialogue outside of time, or join a discourse in which I feel understood and invited to express myself.

Why did you choose this work from Collezione Ramo?

This work by Fabio Mauri depicts the famous logo of the record label "his master's voice" (better known in Italy as "la voce del padrone"), which depicts a small dog listening to the voice of its master, deceased, through a gramophone. an iconic and moving image at the same time, which Mauri intends as an ambiguous emblem of the world, but which he renders here in a very delicate way, perforating the cardboard so as to outline the contours of the two figures, almost as if it were a child's handiwork or the preparatory cartoon for a fresco; two dimensions that I think fit well with the atmosphere of my exhibition.