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Jan Lim Photographer USA Ugo Baldassarre Photo Italy Sabrina Esquerra Illustrator Ecuador Juan Cabas Plastic Artist Colombia Alex Migliardi Photo Italy Mariana Lozano Photo Argentina

MAX SIMOTTI Italy’s Photographer

Interview by Bogamia Mag

JUAN CABAS

Vibraciones de la Piel‌

Tell us your start in the art world?

While still very young, my father bought me my first Apple II personal computer. It was a revolution for me and I started looking for shapes and colors and printed them on paper. It was like the first self-taught course of values and expressions of painting. From then on I never stopped to inquire about colors, shapes and patterns, and ended up graduating from La Salle College as a computer graphic designer.

What themes do you like to explore and capture in your works?

My spirit is very tropical, very Caribbean, perhaps because of the heritage of my family. I like to explore those rays of light beating down giving form to objects.

How was the transition from graphic design and art? Or blend of the two?

I do not mix the two. My style of painting with the skin, using it as a single brush, makes the idea or inspiration that I have in my mind, to be transmitted to my skin. Then, I place the canvas on the floor, and "I smear" acrylic paint on me and then I throw myself on the canvas.

My movements are almost automatic responses to what my mind commands.

How did the concept emerge for "Skin Vibrations�?

I was very much inspired by a recent trip to Japan where I found that the figures do not necessarily have to be in the present, but must let those find it as they are looking at the frame.

I think there's something in my abstract impressionism but always with a "surprise" for those that stop before the art work.

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I generally go for 2 months or more to Colombia every year, and I travel especially to the Caribbean. My eyes take all the mental pictures of that magical world, all of which I bring back to New York and here I put it in between skyscrapers, trains and bridges in my paintings.

What inspires you to paint?

Generally everything beautiful. Such is the beauty of life, it is worth highlighting it. For example, if I am in Barranquilla, it fills me with images of happy people, carnival and revelers; the smiles of the Cartagena Palenque, the pride of a peasant cactus or a palm of a palm tree. There are a couple of paintings that break this pattern it is a life-size Christ, depicting the time of his death, and another shows pastries behind a glass case while a divine hungry child ripping the glass with his nails trying to eat the delicacies.

What do you feel when you paint?

I feel like I go into body and soul of the canvas like a pool and everyone turns into what I am leaving within the canvas.

Do you have a ritual when working in your study?

Yes I have a special sound system for people like me who have lost their hearing. Many times at night, using lights of darkness, I place the equipment on the floor, I increase the volume to Beethoven and other times to my brother "Andres Cabas" with cumbias and Bullerengue, I hear it my way and it takes me out of this world.

In your works is there a message to be shared to the public?

Always. My work must have the obligation to impact with a message, sometimes subliminal but powerful, and other obvious and refreshing. My whole message is: Here is life, Live it!

Can you tell us some future projects?

Yes, and I hope they don’t copy it, but I will say it because they say it brings positive energy. The work of our Nobel Garcia Marquez is so spectacular, each person paints his character as he pleases. I want to try to approach a garcíamarquiano profile. But not in painting but instead in sculpture. I think the "Heartless Grandmother" or "Melquiades" or “Remedios la Bella” in sculptures with aggressive texture of clay can add a little more life to the magical world of the teacher of teachers.

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