I want to say thank you to Mariano Sangalli for taking the time to help accomplish the bridging of my questions with personal answers.
The aim of this Essay and Interview with Mariano Sangalli is to share my philosophies and beliefs on an artist I have collected and have visually fallen in love with. When I was setting up the Zoharks Gallery for the “08+08” exhibition I could not help but question the senses I kept feeling when looking back on what I had collected from the artist so I wanted to pick Mariano’s brain.
Exploration of similarities and differences.
They say photography is the sister of cinema, I insert in that Mariano Sangalli would be the brother of creating cinema-like feelings but with a canvas creating scenes as if it was stop-motion. This makes me question the complexity of what makes a still image and what is considered a moving picture when something is still but flows like a stream of water moving quietly and undetected.
Sangalli’s work seems to seek different cognitive capacities and senses:
mortality, Emotion, Truth.
Momento 00 by Mariano Sangalli
This is where my mind takes me and signals to me when looking at the pieces by Sangalli. As a jazz lover and art lover I made an argument that we can no longer compare art to jazz. With new innovations, we are forced to move to a different type of beat, I believe the beat is moving at the speed of electronic music or a Hans Zimmer soundtrack
I find myself contradicting myself after hours of listening to Hans Zimmer while looking over some of the works of Sangalli, with each track and some repeated tracks. I found myself with the thesis that Sangalli has the same philosophical landscape and tempo as performing arts.
When I looked at works like “Corporeity: by Mariano Sangalli and Sonia Perez, I could not help but look at the art piece as a contemporary performance that is conceived as an NFT.
Corporeity by Mariano Sangalli and Sonia Perez
“Inside” was a piece that made me reflect on my personal life and asked myself about the things I once doubted about myself, relationships, and hardships that were faced in life. It was almost as if the more I went through artworks, the more I felt like I was in a therapy session between my conscious thoughts, my reflections, and the artworks which created a connection that was built through every single piece.
Inside by Mariano Sangalli
My connection became so strong that I decided to interview Mariano Sangalli, for who I am grateful and thankful for spending the time answering each question to make this reading possible.
Is there anything you want to show to people when you create a piece?
no, or at least not something specific, I only try to generate an evocation, a sensation of space, and an empty narrative, so that the viewer can complete it. you could say that it is a container that the viewer fills.
Whenever I look at your works of art I feel the story being told, do you feel there’s intent in telling the story or is it for the viewer to see the story told?
I think I answered part of this answer before, but to go deeper, I could say that I leave structures of a story that is not told so that the viewer can finish building it with his own story. I try to balance evocation and narrative, which sometimes come out and sometimes do not.
small paintings 3 by Mariano Sangalli
What are the little things you enjoy in life?
The little things in life? a complex question. what is small and what is big? hehe, I guess I could sum it up in the detail. I enjoy being able to appreciate the details, the little things. a leaf that moves in the wind, a little ornament in some new place I see, that kind of thing
How easy is it for an artist of caliber to bridge and reflect between your past, present, and what you see in the future?
about the past and the present I could say that it is not easy, but it is an interesting exercise, every few periods (once or twice a year) I display all my works in the workshop, to see what they tell me about what I have already done and what I am doing now, and every time I do it I find new things. I am in a constant dialectic exercise between the past and the present of what I do. and in relation to the future, it is totally uncertain for me because I don't know how my work can be modified in the future, what new techniques or crafts I will learn. To give you an example, getting into digital art and NFT has changed considerably my way of working.
Who is the one artist who spoke to you through visual representation?
With this question you mean who are my visual references? sorry if I don't understand it, english is not my native language and maybe I miss some subtleties of the language. In case you mean my references, I could name some that come to my mind at this moment. Louise Bourgeois , Michaël Borremans, Lucian Freud, Bruno Walpoth, Gideon kiefer, Bill Viola, Pina Bausch
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