{"id":8787,"date":"2024-06-20T00:41:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T00:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/?p=8787"},"modified":"2024-06-21T00:59:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T00:59:30","slug":"contemporary-artist-francesco-damiani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/2024\/06\/20\/contemporary-artist-francesco-damiani\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary artist Francesco Damiani"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8787\" class=\"elementor elementor-8787\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd14bee e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fd14bee\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34804e1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"34804e1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 22-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8788 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Francesco_Damiani.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Francesco_Damiani.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Francesco_Damiani-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Francesco_Damiani-768x599.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Francesco_Damiani-600x468.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/>Can you tell us about your journey from studying chemistry to becoming an artist? What inspired this transition?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">I worked as a chemist and spent much of my salary on useless things. That&#8217;s why my parents advised me to save money. Maybe they were hoping for a savings book or a house, but I had thought of art objects, things of not only monetary but also symbolic\/artistic value. At some point in my life, however, I found myself without a job and with no more money. I thought I would find a job right away but it was the time of the economic crisis and I preferred to capitalize on my time by following the courses at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari where I was born. To then follow also to Milan where my sister lived, a great supporter of my passion. In Milan I attended a course entitled \u201cthinking design\u201d taught by Japanese designer Kazuyo Komoda. She taught me to follow my spirit and design design works that you feel the need for, without waiting for a company to commission a product. I began to perceive that I had ideas and I had the need to express projects, make images and that I could make those works myself that responded to a certain idea of art and beauty that I had. Which was the same one I was looking for in my art purchases.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<h4 style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">How has your background in chemistry influenced your approach to creating art?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">My analytical and practical approach comes from scientific studies but my way of creating is influenced by my nature, curious, childish, playful and enchanted.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8790 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_bouquet_2024_modelingclaysculpture_variabledimensions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_bouquet_2024_modelingclaysculpture_variabledimensions.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_bouquet_2024_modelingclaysculpture_variabledimensions-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_bouquet_2024_modelingclaysculpture_variabledimensions-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_bouquet_2024_modelingclaysculpture_variabledimensions-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_bouquet_2024_modelingclaysculpture_variabledimensions-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_bouquet_2024_modelingclaysculpture_variabledimensions-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_bouquet_2024_modelingclaysculpture_variabledimensions-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_bouquet_2024_modelingclaysculpture_variabledimensions-650x650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_bouquet_2024_modelingclaysculpture_variabledimensions-1300x1300.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_bouquet_2024_modelingclaysculpture_variabledimensions-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_bouquet_2024_modelingclaysculpture_variabledimensions-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n<h4 style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8792\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_lamellasmarties_20221_pvcsculpture-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_lamellasmarties_20221_pvcsculpture-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_lamellasmarties_20221_pvcsculpture-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_lamellasmarties_20221_pvcsculpture-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_lamellasmarties_20221_pvcsculpture-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_lamellasmarties_20221_pvcsculpture-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_lamellasmarties_20221_pvcsculpture-650x650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_lamellasmarties_20221_pvcsculpture-1300x1300.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_lamellasmarties_20221_pvcsculpture-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_lamellasmarties_20221_pvcsculpture-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_lamellasmarties_20221_pvcsculpture.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>How do you decide on the forms and colors used in your sculptures? What role does color play in your work?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">There are many suggestions that influence my work: the history of art, fashion, design, the movies I see or the books I read, but also objects of daily life that I have at home that I enjoy using as well as childhood memories and moments of fullness of adult life.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">The color in my works is very important. every shade is a mood and by combining them I can evoke a feeling, a bit like the different components of a perfume.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<h4 style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Can you share any unusual stories or ideas behind any of your work?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">I had recently moved into my current house, it was afternoon, there was a nice light, I had the bathroom door open and you could see the sink. I must say that it was a sink designed by Achille Castiglioni in the 70s. I saw it and found it beautiful, I was happy to have such an object in the house and so I made a cast of it and much more to make it a work of art.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8793\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_permanganatosoma_2020_modelingclaysculpture_50x50x35cm-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_permanganatosoma_2020_modelingclaysculpture_50x50x35cm-scaled.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_permanganatosoma_2020_modelingclaysculpture_50x50x35cm-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_permanganatosoma_2020_modelingclaysculpture_50x50x35cm-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_permanganatosoma_2020_modelingclaysculpture_50x50x35cm-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_permanganatosoma_2020_modelingclaysculpture_50x50x35cm-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_permanganatosoma_2020_modelingclaysculpture_50x50x35cm-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_permanganatosoma_2020_modelingclaysculpture_50x50x35cm-600x900.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/>\n<h4 style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Have you noticed any differences in how your work is received in different cultural or geographic contexts?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Sometimes we might be led to think that there is a difference between the scientific world and the art world or between Italy, America, Asia, Africa. And maybe it&#8217;s true, for a certain type of art, but for the research I do, on joy and moments of great fullness of spirit, actually not, I think I use a language that is very universal.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<h4 style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">What advice would you give to aspiring artists who come from non-artistic academic backgrounds?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Not to have problems because there is no separation between scientific research and artistic research: the most important thing is to be rigorous, to research one&#8217;s own truth, to be independent and to be animated by strong passion.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8791 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_crave_2024_modelingclaysculpture_35x30x5cm-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2339\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_crave_2024_modelingclaysculpture_35x30x5cm-1-scaled.jpg 2339w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_crave_2024_modelingclaysculpture_35x30x5cm-1-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_crave_2024_modelingclaysculpture_35x30x5cm-1-936x1024.jpg 936w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_crave_2024_modelingclaysculpture_35x30x5cm-1-768x840.jpg 768w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_crave_2024_modelingclaysculpture_35x30x5cm-1-1404x1536.jpg 1404w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_crave_2024_modelingclaysculpture_35x30x5cm-1-1872x2048.jpg 1872w, https:\/\/visualartjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/francesco_damiani_crave_2024_modelingclaysculpture_35x30x5cm-1-600x657.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2339px) 100vw, 2339px\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Looking back on your career, is there a particular moment or piece that you are especially proud of?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\">Taking missteps and taking different directions is part of life and therefore also of work. I like all the periods and pieces of my life even those in which I recognize there are mistakes or in which my poetics is not well focused. There are parts that are important because they have opened new doors for me: the works with plastics, the assemblies and the works still unpublished that are, as well as sculptural, also pictorial.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\n<br><br>\n\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.francescodamianiartwork.com\/\">Website<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/damiani.francesco1975\/ \">Instagram<\/a><\/center>\n<br><br>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gjmhGO_pORE?si=NTsswP8cKDyGkCwU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you tell us about your journey from studying chemistry to becoming an artist? 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