Francesco Candeloro from Venice
How your way of working has changed?
My work is developing in notes, small sketches to stop ideas. Drawings for possible future pictorial works, no more well-defined projects ready to be made in the workshops where I work with Plexiglas. Part of it is positive, I partly feel like I'm in a suspended state. But I have also developed a sort of game by creating ephemeral works with household objects and I photograph the ones that satisfy me most with my cell phone., which is very different from my usual way of doing things.
With which objects and spaces of your daily life are you interacting the most?
I interact a lot in the living room space, with some kitchen objects from pot holders, the under pots, the saucers up to the large carpet in the room, constructing and dismantling self-portraits made with these objects.
We are dealing with a new time and space. What are you discovering or rediscovering about yourself?
My addiction to what I do!
What you're missing? Your personal experience of “absence” and “lack”
I miss going to the studio, stay there, thinking only about the work to be done or moving around the companies where I create most of my works.
To date, what have been the immediate consequences of the spread of Covid for you 19 about your work and what you think the long-term consequences may be?
A sense of anticipation but also being able to stay in forced reflection which can be the positive part because you are not always forced to slow down, stop the way you work. Process time another way. Everything will be more limited, people will be less willing to meet with many people, I'm thinking about inaugurations, for self-defense and for distancing rules. On the one hand there won't be inaugurations where you meet everyone, they will become multiple meetings with a few people until a vaccine arrives and is distributed. The whole economy stopped, they will all spend less. There will be a sharp slowdown in the acquisition of works of art by collectors.
Francesco Candeloro born in 1974 to Venice. The artist places the dimensions of light and color at the core of his very personal research, together with shape and sign, proportion, rhythm and movement, they constitute keys to understanding temporal and spatial dynamics. In fact, for Candeloro "art is a vision of time", in the different types of works into which his production is divided. In all the light, natural or artificial, constitutes an essential component, it projects colorful and changing shadows into the surrounding space, to give life to a universe made up of "multiple visions". Candeloro has exhibited internationally in numerous solo exhibitions, collective exhibitions including the archaeological museum of Naples, the Fortuny Museum in Venice, the Cascavel museum for the Curitiba biennial, at the End of the World Biennial of Argentina and Chile, to the Atchugary Foundation in Uruguay and to Hiroshima for the exhibition The sign of emptiness. The latest project completed is Eyes of Time and Temples of Light created for the Civic Museums of Bassano del Grappa. www.francescocandeloro.org