Interview With Silvia Idili
Interview: Daniela Petkovic
(editing kept to a minimum to preserve the voice of the interviewer and the interviewee)
DP: Hi Silvia, where do you come from?
SI: I was born in Cagliari, Sardegna (South Italy) but it’s been two years since I’m living and working in Milan.
DP: How did you approach to art? [How did you become an artist?]
SI: Since I was a child I used to draw during my free time. This passion has been growing up with me and through tenacity and determination I’ve made it my work.
DP: Do you work in progress on a paint? [Are you currently working on a painting?]
SI: Of course. I’m working on a new composition: it’ll consist in 13 little sketches. I put together all the pieces into a unique one in which they will maintain a dialogue. At last, what I’m going to create is a sort of storyboard, it’s like an idea of direction, a screenplay.
DP: How do you prepare your working set?
SI: First I make sure that the drawing table has been well lavigated and prepared and then I start to paint. Another main step is to create a black acrylic base that becomes the screen for my imaginary projections.
DP: Your style is very minimal and there are some featured elements in your artworks such as the grass and the black skies that give to the paint a sort of latent tangibility structure. On the contrary, how do you renew your work?
SI: Yes. In my works I tend to keep a minimal style because I think there’s no need to be excessive to express a sensation or a concept. The green grass and the black sky are just an encephalic dimension in which memories emerge, feelings and emotions in a constant growth and mental exploration.
DP: How do you develop your characters and where do they come from?
SI: They come from my imaginary, memories and anything that touch me. One of the main sources for me is the cinema, I just love it.
DP: Your artworks show feelings for what they are. Is it love above all?
SI: A Sensation, a kind of feeling are always featured in my artworks. All thoughts, both from the past and the present are connected to a feeling like nostalgia, sadness, love and so on.
DP: Why animals are dissected in your artworks?
SI: Sometimes it seems that figures librate, sucked by the grass or sectioned. Heads are divided from their body. This is possible in a mental dimension where shapes are split and deleted by time.
DP: Any upcoming exhibitions?
SI: Not at the moment but soon one of my artworks will be used by an Italian publisher as a cover for a novel by the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgårds.
DP: Please, give us a message for all those underdogs out there!
SI: Keep believing in your work, assert your creativity and call into question. If you truly believe, you’ll make it!
To see more of Silvia’s work go to:
