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I like to leave some areas blank to add light
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I like to focus on people's clothes

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British Museum Canteen 1 Drawing

Mary Cinque

Italy

Drawing, oil pastel on Paper

Size: 11.3 W x 16.5 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Made this while I was living in London and working at the British Museum, where I used to have lunch at the staff canteen. The man depicted here was one of my colleagues, a very quiet man, who liked to keep to himself and that one can never fail to see reading something at lunch, being it a book or a magazine. This scene struck me because it was a very calm moment, almost no one was in the canteen except us two, and he being seated by the big clock made everything so iconic that i HAD to make a drawing out of it. As was often the case at the time (and it is still now) I used one of my favorite art tools: Sennelier oil pastels to depict this scene. I love to draw scenes like this as they give me the chance to focus on many of the subjects that I like: indoors, furniture, people, clothes, everyday objects and, ultimately, to focus on shapes, colors and lines; that it is all that matters to me, while I am creating an artwork. I think one can really appreciate the inherent quality of the oil pastels in this artwork, where the strokes and shapes are minimal and yet speaks volume about the strength of color and shadows. Men are one of my favorite subjects, as they can be very beautiful, and I like to add something different to the History of Art narrative that seems to be all about the female body, which is such a narrow idea. I hope that this artwork will bring you to London, experiencing all the beauty that one can spot around them in such a vibrant city. This, like all the artworks from this series, has been treated with two to three layers of fixing spray; nonetheless I advise to promptly frame it with a glass too, to protect it from the dust. The artwork will be shipped rolled in a tube, I recommend to take it as soon as possible to a framer, to professionally flatten it back and to provide a frame with a glass, as the oil pastel needs to be protected from the dust. London 2018.

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Drawing:

oil pastel on Paper

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One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

11.3 W x 16.5 H x 0.1 D in

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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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