VIEW IN MY ROOM
Italy
Drawing, oil pastel on Paper
Size: 11.7 W x 16.5 H x 0 D in
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I have been fascinated by people chatting over a plate of good food, since, when I was studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, my Painting professor showed us "Babette's feast" movie. It was such an eye opener. I never looked at food in the same way after that. And then I fell in love with my actual boyfriend. Like most of the Italians (not me) is very serious about food and high quality ingredients, but, unlike most of the Italians, he is very open about cultural contamination, in every aspects of his life. It was just perfect then, when we moved to London, for him to fin a job at Ottolenghi, a real institution, not only for food. Every time you walk in one of their restaurants, you are welcomed by great staff, amazing lighting and art, and of course, excellently prepared and presented food. I was so lucky to go there many times, and every time I took so many pictures, already planning to transform them in paintings and drawing, as also the people that go to these restaurants are charming (well, I am fascinated by people everywhere in London, they have something special that appeals to me, maybe because they come from so many different places in the World). I am very pleased with "Breakfast with friends" because it gave me the chance to include many of the elements that I like about a good restaurant. The clever lighting, the beautiful people, the sophisticated yet relaxed atmosphere, the perfectly designed crookery and a nice view outside the window. I like to focus on people's outfits too, as I believe that the way we dress tells a lot about us, and so here I took particular care in depicting the lining of a trench coat on the chair and the woman on the right's white pullover. I hope that the welcoming atmosphere and the confidence and happiness that these women talking emanate could travel from this drawing to your place and brighten your day.
Drawing:oil pastel on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:11.7 W x 16.5 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
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"Mary Cinque is an Italian painter, graphic designer and blogger working and living in the Amalfi Coast. Her works – joyful, bright, colourful painting and drawings – are inspired by this place, as well as her heritage, background and travels. Mary spent her childhood between Italy and Ethiopia. Before moving back to the Amalfi Coast in 2019, she has lived in Naples and Milan, where she attended academies of fine art; and Philadelphia, New York and London where she improved her artistic skills and style. Alongside making art, she works as an illustrator and graphic designer, collaborating with selected brands, working on artistic commissions such as illustrations, labels and showroom design. Cinque’s art develops themes connected with what makes us essentially humans: our habitat – the buildings, the streets, the cities – our bodies, what we eat and how we socialise. Art, in Mary’s paintings, becomes a powerful instrument of philosophical investigation which reveals who we really are by questioning our habits, observing those characteristic traits we share as a species, often without realising it. The artist looks at human beings from a different perspective, making interesting and significant what can seem normal or banal to us in our everyday life: the buildings that populate our cities, the streets we walk, people sitting across our table at a café, strangers on the bus. In this nutshell interview by Giulia Corti, Mary Cinque explores some of the most relevant aspects of her art and reflects on how it offers an intriguing and informative perspective about the way we live as human animals. Mary, your art is colourful and vivid, it mixes human and urban subjects by making use of various techniques (oil painting; pastel drawing, markers, “digital” drawing, print-making etc.) and materials (canvasses, magazine pages, an I-pad screen). How do you choose the means with which to develop an artwork and how do the different materials and techniques influence what you want to convey, if they do? Different subjects call for different techniques. Buildings and urbanscape are always acrylic on canvas, while I prefer to depict people using a quicker, immediate approach, like the one that I can get with markers and oil pastels or digital painting. By looking at the main themes of your art, it is possible to notice what seems to be a tension. On one hand, you portrayed the stillness and artificiality of urban landscapes and buildings (e.g.
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