Aurelio Gaiga
Born in 1969.
Live and work in Alpo of Villafranca ( Verona – Italy ).
1989 : diploma ( high school ) in Visual Arts at the State Art School of Verona.
My work investigates the growing importance that technology has assumed and will assume more and more in our lives.
I work on the deformation of images ( images of people seen in their daily lives reading a newspaper, drinking a coffee, ect... ) as in the case of television interference or digital distortions.
Other works present interpretations of famous paintings of the past reinterpreted and modified in this key, as if the technology were erasing our past, our history, our memory, perhaps our humanity.
All the works are characterized by vivid and intense colors, to represent the seductive aspects with which each new technological discovery is presented, always leaving out any potential negative aspect.
Please tell us more about your background and how you began creating art?
After high school, I began to read art magazines and visit exhibition, mainly in Verona galleries.
At the time of school I loved comics and drew a lot, however, despite being fascinated by painting and the profession of painter I was almost in awe of it. After seeing an exhibition on Paul Klee at Palazzo Forti in Verona, in 1995 I began my first timid experiments in painting.
What does your art aim to say to the viewers?
It would be nice if my art led the viewer to ask questions, I think this is the most important thing.
Do you have an essential philosophy that guides you in your creative expression?
I don’t have a particular philosophy, I try to keep an open mind that allows me to have a 360-degree view of reality and arts as much as possible.
What art marketing activity do you put into practice regularly that works most successfully for you?
In the competitions, in which I participate with a certain regularity, for some years I have joined Instagram, to try to increase visibility, even beyond national borders.
Can you tell us about the process of creating your work? What is your daily routine when working?
I think my work process is quite common.
Once I enter my studio, I close the door, turn on some music ( radio or cd ) and essentially focus only on what I have in mind to do.
A bit like being isolated from the outside world.
How much planning goes into each artwork?
Even if it may not seen like it at first glance, there is planning in all my work, both in works that involve the insertions of subjects, figures and in purely abstract ones. For the subjects I always start from a photographic starting point that it can be an image found on the Internet or in a newspaper or a photo that I have taken myself.
What’s the essential element in your art?
The drawing, the starting point of each work is then covered in the continuation of the painting.
And the color, the colors that are chosen before each painting begins and must be functional to the painting itself.
In your opinion, what role does the artist have in society?
The artist, although not among the most important figures in our society, can still, through his work, induce reflections both on exposed nerves of society and on issues closely related to art.
Are there any projects you are currently working on and able to speak about?
Obviously new works and I am currently making some small works on paper to participate in a competition dedicated to drawing and works on paper that will at be presented at the Cremona Art Fair in 2023.
