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About The Artist
Franco Nicholas Muscarella
The Artist's Statement –
An Emerging Contemporary Artist
Most of my work doesn’t look like anything in the world outside my own head. Someone said it is “self-referential.” I sit alone and listen to music, usually “The Art of the Fugue” by Bach or the “Day of the Hunt” by Mozart. I make a mark on the paper….then another …and then another each one building on the next in little units. I never know where these units are going. I just let the building happen while the music plays. I know when it’s finished because as I look at it there aren’t any more marks to make.
My art is the exact opposite of representational art. Mine is entirely my own…. personal. I don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. I want my drawings to take me into a new dimension, not the one most people live in…It’s sort of like atoms, building to molecules, building to larger units that we all can then recognize as something. I can look at something and draw it.. I can do that, but I don’t, because then my drawing won’t truly be my own. My drawings start with something that doesn’t exist before I mark it down. If I just copy something like a vase or a leaf for instance, that work will belong as much to the object as to me. I want to create something organically Franco.
I work in sort of a feedback loop…I make a mark and that sends a signal for more marks. I really like when people say nice things about me and buy my work, but quite honestly, I do this because I have to…I don’t want to live another way.
Member of:
Andersonville Chamber of Commerce
Wilmette Art Guild
East on Central
Highland Park Arts Commission
Museum of Contemporary Art
Around the Coyote
Chicago Artists Coalition
North Shore Art League
Anatomically Correct
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