A Pleasing Conversation with Alberto Magrin
Courtesy of artist
Alberto Magrin is an Italian multi-disciplined artist and founder of the Magreen Gallery. Alberto’s artwork has been exhibited in galleries internationally. His works are currently in permanent collections around the world: The British Museum (London) , The MOCA (Los Angeles), The Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast (Dusseldorf) , The Spazio Oberdan (Milan) , The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (Dresden) , The Musée des Beaux Arts (Lyon) , The Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art (Trento) , The CAM Casoria Contemporary Art Museum , The Pontificia Academia Scientiarum (Vatican City) , The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg) . I had the honor and pleasure to ask Alberto what makes a good picture stand out, what his post-editing process is like, and what is the statement he wishes to make with his art.
UZOMAH: How do you keep the overall purpose of your work to be a driven force theme in different exhibits?
A: My artistic process is always the same regardless of the technique used. I am a visionary artist who speaks with his intelligent spirit.
U: How do you capture images that include people during this pandemic? How do you work around the pandemic?
A: The pandemic does not go around, we live with it
U: Have you learned any new techniques that have advanced your artistic process?
A: I heat the photographs in the oven on the porcelain at 900 ° C so they vitrify and become unique pieces
“Me by night,” porcelain (30x40) cm
U: What makes a good picture stand out from the average?
A: The power to surpass the space-time relationship.
U: Do you prefer color or Black and White? Why one over the other, and is the photographic process different?
A: I have no preferences, the works work or do not work whether they are in black and white or in color even if lately I only use color to be more faithful to reality.
“The buoy raises the horizon,” porcelain (30x40) cm
U: How do your studies in architecture influence how you take photographs?
A: For the sense of balance and harmony between the various elements.
U: What is your post-editing process like?
A: I don't have a fixed process, the works are only children and they must be treated as such, sometimes a shot is enough in itself, sometimes it needs to be manipulated.
“Italian boat,” porcelain (30x40) cm
U: What is the statement you wish to make with your art?
A: The theory of coincidences
'Coincidences' determine an individual’s state of being, balanced and in harmony with the universe. In this sense, coincidences can be understood as nature’s purest law, and beyond nature, they represent the perpetual bond between the relative and the absolute, as well as the birth of all forms of life and love. They’re a link between reality and imagination, between desire and fantasy, between the body and the spirit, between life and death. The importance of such moments should form the basis of all scientific, artistic, economic, political, and religious laws, as they determine the existence and subsistence of human beings upon the Earth, as well as upon any other planet. As the laws indicated above, like their establishment, are inseparable from one another, this theory becomes the bond that could further the quest, the growth, and the evolution of mankind.
Space:Sound = Light:Time
For more information about Alberto’s artwork, please visit his site. Please also follow him on Twitter. For more information about the Magreen Gallery please find the gallery on Facebook and Instagram.
