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Interview with Artist of the Month MAKSIM KROKIN

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Interview with Artist of the Month MAKSIM KROKIN

MAXIM KROKIN was born 08/10/1993 in Rostov-on-Don in Russia. At the age of 9
he followed his mother in Naples in Italy where he spent most of his youth ages.
During his teenage years he was involved in a underground scene of skateboarding,
electronic music and graffiti between Naples and Rome. After the High school he
decided to move to Berlin with a desire to become a Music producer and DJ. During
the last 5 years making music in Berlin some how he started to spend more time
working on the covers for his future releases than on music itself, this was a
breaking point in his life where he get caught form art. Some times you will find his
art funny full of colors and some times criticizing the modern society.

How did you get into art? Whats your definition of beauty?
harmony between colors and and right proportions

Tell us about the spaces within which you live and work .
small topical Berlin apartment suffering to find daily light.

Do you have a routine or rituals as you work?
not really but before i start i usually take a cup of coffee

How would you describe the colour palette of your art?
punch in the face. no to be honest i like to very and experiment
new combinations but if i have to define it i would say “warm
and bright”.

Which artist of the past would you most like to meet?
Jean-Marc Côté

What visual references do you draw upon in your work?
old comix and advertising signs but also photography

Do you find that BERLIN art scene inspires or influences your art?
yes specially Berlin’s street art inspires me a lot.

ARTIST STATEMENT
As an artist is really hard for me to explain wich art movement i belong to, i like to vary but most of my works are divided in abstract and satire pop art.
I like to observe and sometimes to represent some aspects of our everyday life using some kind of humor. i want to suggest to the viewer to think about some aspects of out society and about our moral values in a modern society.
The keywords of my art are satire and colors. Talking about the colors i have to say that i spend a lot of time to decide wich color combination to use and find the right balance between bright and dark.
One of my Inspirations resource are old comics and advertising posters, but i also like to let my self inspire from photography and from some of the artist of the past centuries.
April 12, 2020
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visual artist Rachele Moscatelli Femme

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artist of the week: visual artist Rachele Moscatelli "Femme"
Rachele Moscatelli (Cantù, 1993) She graduated cum laude in Graphics in 2016 with a thesis proposed for publication by the professor
Andrea B. Del Guercio. She earned cum laude her M.A. in Graphics with a thesis titled “Estetica della mancanza. Studio di un paradosso e della sua rivelazione” with the curator Angela Madesani as thesis-advisor. She is now living and working in Milan where she is collaborating with the Art Gallery Studio d’Arte Cannaviello. She is also coworking with visual design studios to realize installations, animations and exhibition projects.
The artist is strongly linked to painting, collage, calcographic engraving, monotype and digital photographic manipulation, techniques that relate her decisive sign and chromatic components. Her work is on female identity, sometimes without prejudice but never ideological. The ancient is the basis
for many of her works, the ultramodern is revealed instead in the linguistic overturn that breaks the images and leaves them floating in an aseptic or
made of signs space. Her subjects come from the world of fashion.

She gives a sensitive attention to the surface of her figures obtained by repeated overlapped color layers. The skin is not only the object, the theme, the texture, but the support on which she works, turning those surfaces into something alive. As if the paper or the canvas were interwoven with pores, due to an intrinsic need to breathe. it is important for her to find that impression of life that makes something more than a creation, and it makes it almost a creature.

Recently she has discovered and cultivated a strong closeness with the world of the artist’s books and adopted them as an expressive medium. Recently her work has been published in Kunst Magazine, Nicotine Magazine and in the other magazine. She has particularly approached the world of digital and of illustrated animation, so that she creates an hybrid between analogic and digital techniques, always looking for an aesthetic that creates a suc cessful integration and a compromise between the two.

FEMME
Femme is a portraits’s series entirely made with collage. Female figures are here manipulated through the use of repeated layers of color or colored cardboards applied on the faces of these figures in order to transform them into modern icons or pop masks. The layering of materials represents the progressive accumulation of the artist’s thoughts and ideas. Each figure thus takes shape layer by layer.
Tecnique: collage (12 Portraits)
misure: 21,6 x 29,6 cm.
Year: 2018
instagram: @ray___bat
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