Claudio Parentela
Catanzaro, Italy
Website
ilrattobavoso.altervista.org
How would you describe your work?
My work is anarchic, dreamy, delirious, joyful, trendy, freaky, linear, twisted. I like to experiment with everything that attracts my attention. Attempting impossible combinations between the most varied materials and colors. I like to experiment with the motions of my heart to open myself more and more to the terrible and wonderful universe in which we live. Art, my art is my only autistic way that I have to relate and integrate and relate to the sea, the sounds, the darkness, the blinding light. It is a wonderful and continuous catharsis that happens by magic every moment, every day of my life
What inspires you?
I follow the faint sounds, the evanescent thoughts....Everything and everyone inspires my artistic research. Every stimulus is unique, it must be captured, explored. Every sound has a color and a message that wants to be translated, that I want to translate. So much music inspires my work, all the artists of the past,of the present,of the future inspire my work. Art is a wonderful gift, an extraordinary means to enter inside oneself, to know oneself, to improve oneself, to untie the thousand knots of one's soul. There is nothing that inspires me, everything inspires me, wonder inspires me, fear inspires me, dreams inspire me, desires, the worst nightmares, music, my music, my beloved books, the mountains, the sea in winter.
Can you speak about your process?
I absolutely don't want to be repetitive, no....but the magic that happens every day,in every creative day of mine...is always the same as always. I always repeat the same actions every day....I work incessantly every day, all day, because this is the wonderful life that I have chosen to live, and that is to continue to create, create and always create...Because it is the only way I have to feel free, true, sincere with my heart and with myself and with the purpose and with the gift that the universe has granted me.Everything begins every day with lots of music and all my things around me....my colors, my photos, my multicolored papers, my thousand brushes, my old photos, my magazines, my beloved books, my comics and a good glass of red wine....and the enchantment and the magic happens punctually....and on the sheet appear lines, knots, colors, eyes, so much black....all the chaos unravels by magic and the drawing takes on its identity
How did you become interested in art?
Simple, art, my art is my life, the life I chose to live. I have always drawn, painted, photographed, experimented, cut, sewn, glued, dirtied, mixed everything in everything, in my art, in myself, reinventing everything and myself continuously in new ways, different but similar ways, distant and close. I have always had clear ideas about what I wanted to do, making mistakes perhaps often, but finding myself again with more clarity, with the goal more visible and close. It is a continuous search for one's own path, which is arduous, but celebratory and so joyful and fun. I love what I do.
Do you have any favorite artists, movies, books, or quotes?
Artists: Joel Peter Witkin and Diamanda Galas,Patty Waters, Sara Vaughan
Movies: Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa)
Books: Mother’s Agenda (13 volumes)-Satprem
What advice do you have for younger artists?
Always be yourself, always have fun, life is a celebration
