Jernej Creazzo scissors (WE)
Your new daily ritual ...
Daily rituals have not changed much. I am more with my son, which is always a great pleasure, otherwise I wake up early as always, coffee, cigarette, newspapers and morning work on the internet and then off to the studio that, Luckily, I have under the house and that, In these weeks, I had time to fix and thus double the space available. After years I also managed to clear the table and found some drawings, projects and objects of which I had forgotten the existence.
What you're missing? Your personal experience of "absence" and "lack".
I miss planning a lot. Unfortunately, I need stimulation to work. For me, every exhibition to be prepared is a project. I decide the size and material of the works, I make a mental story board of how I want to tell the topic addressed and then off! Blowing on my neck, sleeping only enough and working night and day. These are usually hellish times for my wife too (Marika Vicari, she is also an artist, ed) and so we always try not to have exhibitions at the same time. I miss this now a lot. Before the lockdown I had started a new project, it was also very good in New York, I was very busy, I was going to a thousand, I was preparing a new appointment at the Punto Sull'Arte Gallery. I had prepared over thirty large canvases and the rest of the material, which I always take in advance (the last of the year I give myself a nice gift!). I have everything ready, but i am working as a retiree, I expect to have deadline to throw myself.
How do you imagine the world, when everything will start again?
Honestly, I kind of like the world as it is now. We must admit that we are exaggerating on all fronts and that sooner or later everything would collapse. I very much hope that this difficult and even tragic moment will be of some use. In my work, I continually try to put a mirror in front of the spectators to make them understand that we have taken the wrong path, that of pure consumerism and unbridled capitalism. But I also realized that it is of little use. Unfortunately, the only way to change one's thinking or way of living and thinking is to feel the consequences, real and strong, on our skin. We are hearing them now, even if a small virus created them, but we took them to every corner of the world with our nefarious way of being and we have put millions of people in difficulty. Nature is thus having its five minutes of revenge and making the most of it. I very much hope that we will notice.
When all this is over: one thing to do and one never to do again.
I am a great traveler ... in thought. I travel a lot for work but not for the trip itself. I devour travel magazines and books, but when I propose these ideas of mine, I admit, sometimes even exaggerated, comes the answer: “we will do, when the time comes”. Here it is, that's why I want to really start traveling (in a very basic way) and I never want to hear the answer again: when the time comes, because the right moments could vanish overnight.
Jernej Forbici was born in Maribor (Slovenia) in 1980. Graduated in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (chair C. By Raco). After the specialist degree in visual arts and performing arts, he dedicates himself to landscape and large formats, telling the story of his country of origin, Kidričevo, a town surrounded by greenery marked by the aluminum industry. Of 2002 is the first solo show, Genesis. Exhibits in 2005 at the IBCA in Prague and in 2009 the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice dedicates a retrospective to him In My place at the Magazzini del Sale. They follow the 54. Venice Biennale, Standing in the edge in Vienna and residences in Berlin, London and Paris. Sleep now in the fire, Blurry Future, Hunger for gold, Welcome to the final show e Long gone are the last great solo shows that see him as a protagonist in Belgium, Italy, Slovenia e New York. Also present in many exhibitions, fairs, institutions and collections, ccollaborates with Romberg Contemporary Art (Latina), Sist’art gallery (Venice) and Hugo Galerie (New York). The artist's reference gallery is Punto sull'Arte in Varese.