Gregor Staiger

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ARTISTS:
Monsfer Chetwynd
Massimo Campigli (Collezione Ramo)

Monster Chetwynd answers questions from
Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, curator of the Ramo Collection

Give a definition of what drawing is for you.

Drawing is political art because it is cheap to make. I think the time when I engage in drawing is when I make cardboard sculptures, when I work out a narrative through a physical representation. I don't think drawing is limited to the two-dimensional plane. Drawing is very versatile. I like the conceptual space that distinguishes two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality, ha!

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

Bread Love and Fantasy:
I am familiar with Modigliani, Morandi, De Chirico, Fontana, Arte Povera, the Futurist manifesto, the Futurist cookbook, Pasolini, Fellini, Visconti, De Sica, Antonioni, Nanni Moretti.

Why did you choose this work from Collezione Ramo?

I am intrigued by the representation of women at work. I am reading the book
witch. Women, the Body and Original Accumulation (2004) by Silvia Federici. I work sewing costumes. I delved into the history of the textile industry in Lodz in Poland and Tilburg in the Netherlands. I wonder if that story is similar to that of the Italian women working on the construction of Porco Rosso's seaplane in Ghibli Studio's animated film (1992)? I'm not sure if female workers represented by a male artist would hit the mark, but it's usually the best image we can get.