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Italy
Drawing, Oil Pastel on Paper
Size: 16.5 W x 23.4 H x 0 D in
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Made this artwork from one of the first photos I took when I was living in London. I was working at the British Museum at the time and a lovely lady that was visiting the exhibition "The American dream pop to the present", on hearing that I was living in Stoke Newington told me about guided walk made by a local person. The one that lead me to the top of St Augustine tower was the first of many of such walks that gave me so much joy and taught me a lot about the area I was living in at the time. I am not a huge fan of scenes from a rooftop, as I prefer to be closer to my subjects, but this view is very dear to me as one can still see some details that makes it unique, like the double decker red bus, the sign of "Hackney Central" Station, the sign of "Oslo" at the top of one of the buildings on the right. I think the contrast between the buildings in the middle section of the drawing and the ones in the background is also interesting. The different style, the various color schemes. This scene highlights one of the things that I like the most about London: How the old and the new live close to one another, enhancing each other and actually completing each other; making this city even more special. I hope this artwork will bring you too at the top of St Augustine Tower, in East London, taking in all the beauty that surrounds you on any given day in London. This, like all the artworks from this series, has been treated with three layers of fixative spray, nonetheless I advise to promptly frame it with a glass to protect it from the dust. Agerola, 25th May 2023
Drawing:Oil Pastel on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:16.5 W x 23.4 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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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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