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ARTISTS:
Dasha Shishkin
Mino Maccari (Collezione Ramo)
Giò Marconi
Giò Marconi
Giò Marconi
Mino Maccari
Dasha Shishkin
Dasha Shishkin
Dasha Shishkin answers questions from
Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, curator of the Collezione Ramo
Give a definition of what drawing is for you.
Whenever I create images I make drawings. At least that is the way I call the images that happen.
I feel that I am still in the realm of drawing even when I paint on canvas, perhaps because a line is always the driving force for action.
Love the line.
What is your relationship with drawing? And with the history of Italian art of the last century?
I feel that we are family.
Unfortunately, I have limited knowledge of Italian art of the last century. Studying the images in the Collezione Ramo has been enlightening and very exciting.
So much splendor and inventiveness and frightening variety. The thinking that drives the collection is equally open and adventurous.
Why did you choose this work from Collezione Ramo?
I chose a work by Mino Maccari. The sheet is filled with three vignettes of seafaring shenanigans that I fell in love with.
The blue pen marks appear effortlessly drawn. I appreciate the steady, sure hand that draws smoothly, alternating hard and soft lines with intuition to describe soft hair or a determined walk.
The effect on paper is that of a shimmering texture, with a beautiful balance of dark marks and fine blue lines.