Interviews, Peru, Lima, 15 December 2012
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Half-serious but sincere interview
By Laura Zarrelli
Tell us a little bit of you. A short bio (name, where are you from, where do you live, where and what did you study, a cool job you’ve had).
Hi Blog! My name is Laura Zarrelli and I hold my surname’s two R very dear because people always take one of them away from me! I’m sure I’m the only Laura in the world, and my surname, which stems from the laurel tree, should bring me glory and wisdom: I’m still waiting for the glory and maybe I already forgot the wisdom, because everytime things are new to me, I feel like once upon a time I used to know them! I live in Venice, which is the most beautiful city in the world, but certainly you already now much about it; Instead, I’d like to invite you to discover my birthplace, Larino (CB), that I’m really proud of: It’s a small town in the small Molise, and I suggest you to visit it during the famous S.Pardo’s festival in the month of May! Between concerts, parties, exhibitions and several happy-hours, by chance I turned up to the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and, a little bit for fun, a little bit because of the final thesis, I discovered photography, which I studied in deep at the High Institute of Photography and Visual Arts in Padua. One particular artwork I did? Try to imagine a performance in which you want to build a big labyrinth in a large square and you want to build it using people….but you don’t have enough friends to complete it! I remember with a smile how much fun it was to catch here and there people of all ages trying to get them involved in my project, making them stand in line as if they where waiting for a bus in a twisted queue. The labyrinth came out well but everything finished at 20:00 o’clock because the elderly people were claiming their dinner!
A weird/interesting fact about yourself, something unusual (collecting shoelaces, an obsession with cleaning, enjoying watching squirrels eat a nut, etc).
As a child, I was a baby Edward Scissorhands. The scissors, to say it all, were soon forbidden to me, because of my parents’ and my teachers’ concern. In fact, my biggest passsion was cutting things and then putting them back together in a different way. My Barbie dolls, of which I had an ample collection, were tortured, coloured and kept in my room that looked like the trophy room of a promising serial-killer. Maybe the prohibition to use scissors was useful, because I grew up quiet and harmless, so don’t be scared!
What inspires you the most? Who is your muse?
My inspiration is a mosaic which is auto-assembling. I’m not one of those photographers who shoot a lot; I ponder a lot before a shoot and I look around. I try to forget my projects and I fill myself with theatre, music, cinema, art and street oddities. Every image that strikes me is a piece in my personal mosaic and when I’m complete I throw them all on the ground and….magic! My muse? At the moment it’s the unusual beauty of my Serbian model, who for a spell, as she says, was born completely hairless!
Who are your favorite artists/photographers?
How can you choos one wonder above all? I answer in one go, then: Billy & Hells painted shoots, Mariano Vargas’ double women, Witkin and Bellmer’s funeral parties , John Cage’s silent notes, Tonolo’s fritters with cream (Tonolo is a famous Venician pastry store!), Claude Cahun’s unclear mirror, Alvise Vivarini’s precocious metaphysics, Dino Vallas’ flamish outbursts and Jan Saudek’s aniline. But if I should answer again in 5 minutes time I would quote a 100 more!Come si fa a scegliere una meraviglia tra tante meraviglie? Allora rispondo di getto: gli scatti dipinti di Billy & Hells, le doppie donne di Mariano Vargas, le feste funebri di Witkin e Bellmer, le note silenziose di John Cage, le frittelle alla crema di Tonolo(notissima pasticceria veneziana!), lo specchio incerto di Claude Cahun, la metafisica precoce di Alvise Vivarini, i rigurgiti fiamminghi di Dino Valls e l'anilina di Jan Saudek. Ma se rispondessi tra 5 minuti ne citerei altri 100!
If you could recommend a book, a movie and a song. What would those be?
I have a bad habit: I read a lot of books but I can never finish them; I have the “last 30 pages”’s syndrome! Nevertheless, some of them dragged me so much that I couldn’t help to get to the end. Among them I suggest to everybody Sono apparso alla Madonna by Carmelo Bene. A movie that I would watch again in this precise moment, if I would’t have destroyed the hard disk in which I kept it, is Morte a Venezia by Luchino Visconti. A song? My housemates assert that wwhen I take a shower I sing out loud Who killed Mr. Moonlight by Bauhaus.
If you could be someone famous for the next 24 hours (artist, Hollywood actress/actor, reality TV star). Who would you like to be and why?
If I had the power to transform for 24 hours (but more is better!) I’d like to become Federico Fellini, to discover the secret of his visionary mind and surround myself with his creazy world made of scenographies, costumes, actors and wicked collaborators and finally steal from him the power of climbing, with a camera in my hands, up in the world of oneiric and then come down like someone who wakes up remembering his dreams down pat.
A word or sentence that describes your work (love, playground, a picnic on the mountains surrounded by mosquitoes, etc).
“someday, I'm gonna be a real boy!” (my version of Pinocchio!)
Interview by Allison Valladolid
Half-serious but sincere interview
By Laura Zarrelli
Tell us a little bit of you. A short bio (name, where are you from, where do you live, where and what did you study, a cool job you’ve had).
Hi Blog! My name is Laura Zarrelli and I hold my surname’s two R very dear because people always take one of them away from me! I’m sure I’m the only Laura in the world, and my surname, which stems from the laurel tree, should bring me glory and wisdom: I’m still waiting for the glory and maybe I already forgot the wisdom, because everytime things are new to me, I feel like once upon a time I used to know them! I live in Venice, which is the most beautiful city in the world, but certainly you already now much about it; Instead, I’d like to invite you to discover my birthplace, Larino (CB), that I’m really proud of: It’s a small town in the small Molise, and I suggest you to visit it during the famous S.Pardo’s festival in the month of May! Between concerts, parties, exhibitions and several happy-hours, by chance I turned up to the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and, a little bit for fun, a little bit because of the final thesis, I discovered photography, which I studied in deep at the High Institute of Photography and Visual Arts in Padua. One particular artwork I did? Try to imagine a performance in which you want to build a big labyrinth in a large square and you want to build it using people….but you don’t have enough friends to complete it! I remember with a smile how much fun it was to catch here and there people of all ages trying to get them involved in my project, making them stand in line as if they where waiting for a bus in a twisted queue. The labyrinth came out well but everything finished at 20:00 o’clock because the elderly people were claiming their dinner!
A weird/interesting fact about yourself, something unusual (collecting shoelaces, an obsession with cleaning, enjoying watching squirrels eat a nut, etc).
As a child, I was a baby Edward Scissorhands. The scissors, to say it all, were soon forbidden to me, because of my parents’ and my teachers’ concern. In fact, my biggest passsion was cutting things and then putting them back together in a different way. My Barbie dolls, of which I had an ample collection, were tortured, coloured and kept in my room that looked like the trophy room of a promising serial-killer. Maybe the prohibition to use scissors was useful, because I grew up quiet and harmless, so don’t be scared!
What inspires you the most? Who is your muse?
My inspiration is a mosaic which is auto-assembling. I’m not one of those photographers who shoot a lot; I ponder a lot before a shoot and I look around. I try to forget my projects and I fill myself with theatre, music, cinema, art and street oddities. Every image that strikes me is a piece in my personal mosaic and when I’m complete I throw them all on the ground and….magic! My muse? At the moment it’s the unusual beauty of my Serbian model, who for a spell, as she says, was born completely hairless!
Who are your favorite artists/photographers?
How can you choos one wonder above all? I answer in one go, then: Billy & Hells painted shoots, Mariano Vargas’ double women, Witkin and Bellmer’s funeral parties , John Cage’s silent notes, Tonolo’s fritters with cream (Tonolo is a famous Venician pastry store!), Claude Cahun’s unclear mirror, Alvise Vivarini’s precocious metaphysics, Dino Vallas’ flamish outbursts and Jan Saudek’s aniline. But if I should answer again in 5 minutes time I would quote a 100 more!Come si fa a scegliere una meraviglia tra tante meraviglie? Allora rispondo di getto: gli scatti dipinti di Billy & Hells, le doppie donne di Mariano Vargas, le feste funebri di Witkin e Bellmer, le note silenziose di John Cage, le frittelle alla crema di Tonolo(notissima pasticceria veneziana!), lo specchio incerto di Claude Cahun, la metafisica precoce di Alvise Vivarini, i rigurgiti fiamminghi di Dino Valls e l'anilina di Jan Saudek. Ma se rispondessi tra 5 minuti ne citerei altri 100!
If you could recommend a book, a movie and a song. What would those be?
I have a bad habit: I read a lot of books but I can never finish them; I have the “last 30 pages”’s syndrome! Nevertheless, some of them dragged me so much that I couldn’t help to get to the end. Among them I suggest to everybody Sono apparso alla Madonna by Carmelo Bene. A movie that I would watch again in this precise moment, if I would’t have destroyed the hard disk in which I kept it, is Morte a Venezia by Luchino Visconti. A song? My housemates assert that wwhen I take a shower I sing out loud Who killed Mr. Moonlight by Bauhaus.
If you could be someone famous for the next 24 hours (artist, Hollywood actress/actor, reality TV star). Who would you like to be and why?
If I had the power to transform for 24 hours (but more is better!) I’d like to become Federico Fellini, to discover the secret of his visionary mind and surround myself with his creazy world made of scenographies, costumes, actors and wicked collaborators and finally steal from him the power of climbing, with a camera in my hands, up in the world of oneiric and then come down like someone who wakes up remembering his dreams down pat.
A word or sentence that describes your work (love, playground, a picnic on the mountains surrounded by mosquitoes, etc).
“someday, I'm gonna be a real boy!” (my version of Pinocchio!)
Interview by Allison Valladolid
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