INTERVIEW WITH TAMBURI
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The meeting with the artist EnnioTamburi
Author: Manuela Fine
You cannot "talk" of the birth of an interest in art. Art is a way of being, of existing, of thinking -- it is "born" with you, is in you, forms a part of you … and you cannot do without it: for the nostalgia of childhood, for the fear of living, or dying, for play, or because you cannot do anything else. Read article>>
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Interview by Chiara Prioietti
Author: Chiara Proietti
Media: By courtesy of the artist
Remo, what was the Rome cinema panorama like in the years after the second world war?
The cinema in those years had the merit of attracting the Italian intelligentia to Rome. Luchino Visconti in fact came down from Milan, Michelangelo Antonioni from Ferrara, Mario Monicelli from Viareggio, Federico Fellini from Rimini.
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Meeting with the artist
author:Chiara Proietti
media: By courtesy of the artist
Giorgio, what are the reasons which drove you to undertake a reportage on Piazza Vittorio?
My work is concentrated on this kind of theme, so it was, I should say, a spontaneous choice, that of mixing in the crowd of the greatest ethnic aggregation in the city. The market that was once Piazza Vittorio was a crossroads of different races and colours, along a ring that had its order, its sense. Hundreds of persons came there every day to the centre of that piazza and animated a theatre of life, every one with his or her own language, every one with a particular way of being. Everyone of a different origin, but all in the same place. This was my inspiring shock, but I wished to go beyond the story of how this crowding did not give rise to any corruption , everyone went on his or her way without looking to the left or right of the route. The few contacts between different races which I have witnessed degenerated into dramatic quarrels. Read article>>
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Meeting with artist
Author: Manuela Fine
When and why was your interest in art born?
My interest in art was born when I was young and attended elementary school in my village. My mother was an elementary school teacher and suggested that I enter different drawing competitions, which did with joy and dedication; From then on I dream of dedicating a great part of my life to art.
Meeting with the artist
Author: Manuela Fine
When and how did you involve with art?
I remember when I was very young, my mother taught my brother and me how to paint dinosaurs in watercolor. It was incredibly exciting. Throughout my teens I would be playing music in bands or painting. Then after a brief flirtation with an academic university course (American Studies)
























