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Claudio Parentela & Stampa Alternativa

Fri, 16 May 2008 22:26:47 GMT

...hola&HELLO&Ciao....

....wow....my collaboration with Stampa Alternativa continues...I've created for them 5 wonderful(...&yes...they're really wonderful...!!!!)&big panels(inspired by 5 their books)...They've been shown in Turin at the''Fiera Del Libro''...Other important thing is the cover I've drawn for ''Dolly City''(oh... I love this book...& also the other books of Orly Castel-Bloom...really fantastic ...)just now printed also by Stampa Alternativa...!!!

Here some photos...

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Claudio Parentela

www.claudioparentela.net

Stampa Alternativa

www.stampalternativa.it/

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Fri, 02 May 2008 00:05:11 GMT

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Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:15:43 GMT

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hello&hola&bye&ciao

Claudio Parentela

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''DIaBEtic DEW555''

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:39:39 GMT

...Hello GUys...bad&sweet&good&black&white&yellow&grey...!!!...I've published my first 3 interviews on my new art blog...''DIaBEtic DEW555''

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Claudio Parentela

Interview with Amy Huddleston

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:52:47 GMT

q)Name?

a) Amy Huddleston

q)Location?

a) Kenmore, Washington USA

q)Contact info.?

a) huddlestonstudio@yahoo.com
amyhuddleston.com

q)How did you get started making art?

a)When I was a kid someone told me I was good at it and I believed them, so I never stopped. I guess it's their fault.

q)How would you describe your art?

a)I generally try not too.

q)Where do you get the inspiration for your art?

a)From strong emotions; sadness, fears, sometimes mixed up with humor, sometimes not.

q)What other artists inspire you?

a)I used to have specific artists that inspired me. not anymore. Now everyone who makes stuff and recognizes the importance of it, especially in the world we live in today, inspires me.

q)Where can someone purchase your works?

a)From a few galleries in Seattle or directly from me via my website or studio

q)What is your main medium of choice?

a)Acrylic. I love to work fast and often use lots of layers, oil is just too slow.

q)What are you working on now?

a)I just bought a used kiln and I am reading about clay and kilns. I did a lot of handbuilt figures 20 years ago, before I became a painter, and want to try it out again. I never fired the kiln myself (grad students did most of that), so that will be a real challenge.

q)What advice could you give to someone who wants to
be an artist?

a)Follow your gut. Enjoy it. Be yourself

q) What are you doing when you are not creating art?

a) The same things most people do. enjoy my family, work at a job, read books, see movies, take walks and so on.

q) What does music, in its entirety, mean to you?

a) It enhances life

q) What does art, in its entirety, mean to you?

a)It’s been a constant in my life. I'm never let down by art, either in the making or viewing of it and most always uplifted by it.

q) Are there some web sites that You would like to recomend? Artists, art communities, xxx,...!?

a) flickr, I just love that place, so many fantastic people there doing there thing, living thier lives, it's inspiring.

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Interview with Mike Philbin

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:14:52 GMT

q) Something on you ….

a)I live in Oxford, with my French wife and daughter. I’ve been a 3D artist/animator in the games industry for the last ten years. I’m also a writer of subversive literature and editor of the Chimeraworld anthology (published each year through Chimericana Books). Hertzan Chimera, that was all my fault. I’ve been making psycho-erotic imagery for the last twenty years, I had my first one-man exhibition shortly after leaving art college in 1987. It was a total failure, as was the rest of my artistic ‘career’.

q) When did you start to make art?

a)I’ve been ‘making art’ all my life – I used to make and paint papier maché landscapes for the toy soldiers I collected and painted, mostly Franco-Prussian wars and such, I was eight or ten, something like that. I think I enjoyed the depiction of war rather than the presentation of a pretty scene.

q) Explain your inspiration?

a)What is inspiration? Death, and its imminent arrival. Actually, I’ve nearly died a couple of times and I have had experience of death (watched someone die while I held their hand). In fact most of what I do is motivated by man’s mortality, or love – yeah love, that’s the inspiration. Or lust. Or science – I became obsessed that physics worked BACKWARDS – light travels towards the source of e.m. radiation in the form of the whole universe loss-adjusting to settle a debt. I created a spinning hypothetical particle called The Hertzan Chimera Unit. But then got bored with arguing the toss on New Theories forums and used the name instead to write fourteen years of extreme/surrealistic mindfuck fiction – books include Szmonhfu, BoyFistGirlSuck, Animal Instincts and others...

q) In what way does your inspiration transform into ideas?

a)Through the medium of pain. I wrote a book called RED HEDZ... let me start again, I never wanted to be a figurative artist. Too anal, too technical, all those layers and priming and treatment, all the technique a figurative artist has to be concerned about. I like to use the human form to express emotion, if I can. I’m not too fussed about the minutiae of the topological depiction just that it supports some form of pain, or pleasure. I wrote my first novel RED HEDZ based on a painting I did of the same name because I wanted to get my art onto the covers of books.

q) Could your ideas be portrayed in any other medium? If so which?

a)Film – I think my paintings would make a good (if weird) film. I did do some photomontage, in a clean surrealistic style – my favourites being the Eve’s Apples pieces, a series of cut-ups of Eve seducig Adam with fruit other than apples. Other than that, I have to tell you a secret. I’m a destroyer of my own paintings. All the paintings you see featured here in this interview I took an axe to one Summer afternoon in 1995. Haven’t painted since. Why? It’s the burden. No-one wants to live with the crazy shit one creates. Either sell it or slaughter it, that’s my mantra.

q) What does being an artist mean to you?

a)Being an artist means using what ever medium you’re comfortable in to express your view of the disturbing and arbitrary modern world. It’s about expressive liberation and non-censorship. Being an artist, for me, means making people think. Hearing their stories about what MY ART means. I love it to hear these stories, it’s like the viewer adds something of themselves in the telling of the tale. There is no right or wrong in art, just total submersion in the visual.

q) When does your art become successful?

a)Define successful ... I used art like politicians working away from home use whores. It got the job done, it externalised the pain, scratched the itch – and for that I thank it. But you mean when does the world recognise my endeavour for the brilliance it conveys? Gah, I don’t know if an artist should really give a fuck about whether his art is appreciated, now or in the future. It’s all a random throw of the dice game, the future: there’s no way one can even approach it logically, so why worry? If your art sells, fine. If it doesn’t. Shrug.

q) Who prices your work? And how is the price decided upon?

a)I refer the interviewer to the question of THE SLAUGHTERED PAINTINGS – they get harder and harder to sell with each passing year since 1995. Would I repaint them from the photo reference I took prior to their execution in 1995 if the market suddenly resurrected for that sort of art? Who knows, I’ve not had to formally address that question.

q) What is your next; move,project,show etc?

a)Books, I’ve been painting a picture with every thousand words I’ve written since I started typing into a keyboard back in the early 90’s. My writing and my art have always been interlinked, they are after all the same thing seen through a variety of filters. My writing is always controversial, not for shock’s sake but because I refuse to self-censor. Where other publishers (groups of horror writers) have shied away from my material because of its true horror content, Silverthought Press of New York embraced it, offering me a two book deal for 2008 – “Bukkakeworld” is a novel about the corporate suck-ass but this could also be applied to the genre suck-ass – “Planet of the Owls” is about the end of the world. Aren’t all books really about the end of the world? In this case, the angels are leaving planet Earth and they have to decide whether to take us with them or not. And you know what? They’re both scary as fuck.

q) What are the pros and cons of the art market?

a)Who knows.

q) Which pieces would you like to be remembered for?

a)Who cares.

q) Who has been the biggest influence on you?

a)The funny little art games my mum and I played as a kid – they showed me how to extrapolate a line into something tangible.

q) Other visual artists that you like…

a)Francis Bacon, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Balthus, HR Giger, Daniel Ouellette and the guy who wrote THE BOOK OF SICK.

q)How much do you think hype affects the public perception of what good art is?

a)How much do you think hype affects which trainers the public choose to buy? There’s a great quote from dead comedian Bill Hicks, he goes, “Is there anybody here tonight in advertising or marketing? <beat> Kill yourself.” No joke. Nobody knows what good art is. What is art? Nothing more than a con-game, a mug’s game, a deception. When there’s no wars to win, when there’s no need to kill some animal to eat, when there’s nothing to do – art will always be there, like a comfort blanket for the middle classes.

q) Last CD you downloaded ?

a)I don’t.

q) What makes you happy?

a)Very little.

q) What makes you sad?

a)Almost everything.

q) Last book you read?

a)Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words by Jay Rubin (authorised biography of a great Japanese writer)

q) What else do like other than art?

a)I like foreign or alternative cinema and have had several DVD reviews of hard-to-find titles published here and there. I’m an eclectic magpie when it comes to inspiration, I don’t tend to be inspired by the media I’m creating in. If I’m painting, I’d never be inspired by other artists. If I’m writing I’d never be inspired by other writers. What’s the point? Doing that brings one only to the Law of Diminishing Returns – like dog breeding where peculiarities in the breed are exaggerated by subsequent iteration so that eventually everything parodies everything and (like in Hollywood today) vanilla is the only flavour of creative entertainment. All colour and personality is lost. Dull and grey produce is extrusion moulded into our psyches until we’re unconscious with boredom.

q) Final thoughts...

a)You can do it – don’t comply to the arbitrary ruleset – live your dream!

q)Your contacts…

a)Mike Philbin

http://www.mikephilbin.com

Silverthought Press

http://www.silverthought.com

Chimericana Books

http://www.chimericanabooks.com

Chimeraworld

http://www.myspace.com/chimeraworld

Interview with Menglef

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:35:31 GMT

q)Something on you ..

a)My name is Nathan, I live in Amsterdam. I was born in the United States.
I don’t like to use capitals very often when I type.

q) When did you start to make art?

a)Art? Hm. Well I’ve been drawing since I was a kid. I guess I got more serious
about it as I got older, that might have been a bad thing though.

q)Explain your inspiration?

a)I like trying to render things in detail. I like Da Vinci’s sketches, those are
always inspiring. music, lots of music. Comic books, well when I was a kid,
and that stuck to me. War, which there is plenty of. chimps vs. bonobos, but
I’ve yet to get that on paper properly.

q) In what way does your inspiration transform into ideas?

a)I usually just start drawing anything, or the same things, then they
transform as I drink coffee and work.

q) Could your ideas be portrayed in any other medium? If so which?

a)No I don’t think so, comic books, but thats still drawing.

q) What does being an artists mean to you?

a)Means being kinda lazy and getting high, college kids and such. Or asking the
government for money so you can complain about how bad the government is.
No. I guess more like a discipline in life, at least for me it is,
it’s a way to stay focused, and it gives a certain direction to my life.

q) When does your art become successful?

a)When it satisfies me. Which it often doesn’t.

q) Who prices your work? And how is the price decided upon?

a)At the moment someone else prices it, he comes up with this price by his
art-collecter thinking, I don’t know how that works, the prices are way too
high. but if he actually sold something, id see some money, november is when
this pricing concept gets put to the test.

q) What is your next; move,project,show etc?

a)I have some work in a show in november, the 6th, at the art fair in the Rai
here in Amsterdam. hopefully it brings in cash flow as I am broke and all the
painting I have been doing has been for that show, and id rather wouldve
spent my time travelling or drawing, actually both.

q) What are the pros and cons of the art market?

a)I have no idea. Oh, well a pro is there is usually free wine at art selling
events of any sort and free food. Cons, is there is usually self-absorbed
wankers from wall to wall.

q) Which pieces would you like to be remembered for?

a)Ones I haven’t made yet I think.

q) Who has been the biggest influence on you?

a)Da Vinci, his drawings, not the paintings, those are boring.

q)Other visual artists that you like.

a)Lots. Dwarfbaby [Shane Ingersoll]. Boiled shit. Brh [Brandon Haney]. Mel
Kadel. See my links page, there’s a lot more. And there’s always more coming
out that I see and I get floored by, I think its all too much. Let me throw
in two more; Henry Darger, Schiele.

q) How much do you think hype affects the public perception of what good
art is?

a)I think the hype only affects arty-types. I don’t think it affects the public
at all, I don’t think they care, and thats for good reason, that’s why comics
are more popular than some conceptual wankery nonsense.

q) Last CD you downloaded ?

a)N.W.A.'s greatest hits. And the audiobook of 'I am America and so can you' by
stephen colbert. Both brilliant.

q) What makes you happy?

a)Coffee and certain people. Bonobos.

q) What makes you sad?

a)Lots of people. Human nature, well the chimp like part of it.

q) Last book you read?

a)Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Still working on it. Lots of little books in it.

q) What else do like other than art?

a)Computers. Linux.

q) Final thoughts...

a)Hmmmm.......

q)Your contacts.

a)http://menglef.org
http://www.myspace.com/defty_e