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Like in most of my paintings, the shapes of the buildings become a place where experiment color and paint and reflect on the role of traditional paint on canvas, an ancient technique that is still very powerful, both for the artist that uses it, as well as for the audience. Looking closely at the painting one can perceive the strokes and see and feel the artist and my body at work. Only yesterday I completed this acrylic on canvas that I started painting months ago inspired by a building that I saw whilst on my way to meet at friend at the Tate Modern. Being already late I just took a quick photo of this beautiful façade and didn't write down the name of the street, so yesterday, in order to find that out, I used google street view and discovered that it was the Sampson House that I've painted and that the building started to be demolished in January to make room for a new tower building. 21st April 2019
The City, which seems to be the natural habitat of human beings in the 21th century, is one of the crucial elements of the reality you observe and investigate. Among others, you have depicted London, Naples, Los Angeles. What interests you of cities? What do they represent for you?
I started depicting the cities when I was living in Naples, a city so chaotic that I needed to look at something peaceful. I was then drawn towards neatly designed buildings. At first these architectures were a chance to play with lines, shapes and colours – my cities always being almost abstract – it’s all about the inherent quality of the paint.
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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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