Tell us about your art. What do you do? What did inspire you to start?
I do paint, I make sculpture, short movies and sometimes I do also other visual works. Most of time I am engaged with anything that comes in the centre of my focus. Can be anyone or anything. What I am following is what I perceive most important to me at the moment. Most inspiried I am by life itself. And at the same time also powered by it. I grew up in an artistic family. My father is a painter, my mother an art historian and my older brother is a graphic designer. I have spent all my youth right in the core of artistic life. To me, doing art, is the most natural way of living.
What’s the idea behind “Life is my best friend”?
In a few words I can say that it is a very carefully created site-specific installation and is all about articulating the most intense relationship between an individual and his/her life. Perceiving life as best friend is my metaphore for a simple saying that everything what comes into life of an individual, is in his/her favour. And if it doesn’t seems so, an individual needs only to reveal a new relationship to specify the issue. Charles Riley, art writer and curator from New York wrote for this installation a very good introduction which can be also read in my web page.
I enjoy every project of mine extremely a lot, otherwise I wouldn’t execute it at all. But at present I do like a lot to work site-specific. Also paintings. In this case the site-specific work is described as a painting-installation. One of greatest time was in 2009 at Long Island (NY) There I executed the painting installation “The blue tatoo long island”, for the exhibition at the Salamatina Gallery. Anyway I always follow my instinct: which work and where I should do it.
What are the main challenges of your job and how are you overcoming them?
The main challenge is to go with my work every time beyond what I have done before at my studio. And do art that no one else have done it before. Is also challenging the way I share my wor, how I do communicate it to my publica. I beleive that everything in life is important. Finding the exact, the right place and owners for my artworks is hard as well. I think that in life everything is important, after all.
To my opinion Shoreditch is probably most trend-setting area in the city of London. I like progressive environments. Shoreditch offers to me very intense blend of high level art scene, boutiques with custom or limited fashion, great bars and restaurants. It is just great and inspiring to be inside this. I have spent one month on Curtain road in the end of 2010 and I was looking for a gallery space where my new installation would fit just right in. Then I also met Michael and Keran, both who run the studio1.1 gallery at Redchurch street. I like their gallery and also artist they present. I believe that they run a very independent progressive art program.
How would you describe the art scene in Shoreditch/East London?
It is lively and inviting. Reminds me of East Village or even Greenwich Village in Manhattan some more than 10 years ago. Beside of studio1.1 there are great galleries at Hoxton Square and Kingsland rd (Seventeen gallery). I hope that more similar oriented galleries from West or Central London will join the area. True is that right now fashion is growing faster than the art scene.