How and why did you start your artistic career?

I believe it was the physiological response to a need that I have always felt overwhelmingly: that unavoidable drive to create and give shape to what does not yet exist in its physicality.

So at 15, waiting to put the money aside so that I could respond to one of my first creative impulses, music, and buy my first bass, I went to the cellar and pulled out my school paints and sketchbooks.

From there my first work, generated a flow that has never stopped since then.
Then the passage from creating “for me”, telling about me, to creating “out of me” is a process that took years.

How did you discover your medium and why did you choose it?

I approached my medium, fabric, almost by chance: from working with oil colors on canvases of 2 x 2 meters, I suddenly found myself without a studio and could only use a small space. I found some vintage postcards of which my grandfather was a collector and, in the urge to intervene on them with oil pastels, I started scraping them. From there it was a short step: I scraped a canvas prepared for a painting and I never stopped.

A fabric carries with it its history as much as that of man, of which it is an integral part from birth: as soon as we are born we are wrapped in a blanket, an envelope almost simulating the placental protection of the mother’s womb.
I, therefore, chose to work with fabric as a real, concrete representative of a synthesis that reflects my poetics: being and time as a unified concept of balance between being and non-being.

Can you talk about your creative process? How is your work born? How long you take? When do you know it’s over?

I consider a job finished when I feel that it does not require further intervention. It is not my a priori decision, it is the work itself that suggests it to me.
You have to know how to learn to listen to your work: the artist and the work are an essential combination, as much as the resulting balance; not complying with this silent request would risk making the artist fall into an egotism that I consider uninteresting.

Each work is born from the response to an urgency which, releasing itself in a project, first of all, passes through the choice of the medium: a fabric in my case, of any kind. The search for the right material can take months, while the actual realization could take relatively even a few minutes (as much as weeks).

Every time I approach a new material it’s like starting from scratch. I need to experience it in order to know it deeply and work it in a functional way.
The creative process as such arises from the need to reveal, by scratching and scratching, the hidden word that the material I am working with wants to tell but which, trapped in its structure, remains silent in its mute surface.

Who are your favorite artists? Which ones are you inspired by?

I would like to mention Gerhard Richter, Robert Gligorov, Giorgio Brogi, and John Cage.

Although distant from each other in many respects, they share some elements of great importance to me:
the personal approach to the concept of time, the use of different mediums in one’s artistic production, the authenticity of an all-around vision that distances them from many who instead succumb to the mistaken belief that being an artist means having to do it in some way to demonstrate.

THE ARTIST

Name: Vittorio Bianchi
Residence: Italy
Occupation: Painter
Social: https://www.instagram.com/vtrbnch/

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