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Andy (side A)
"Animals are incredible. The more you study them, the weirder and more fascinating they appear"
Andy ForshawCL: Name age location and fav.choice of pen?
AF: Andy Forshaw, London England STAEDTLER pigment liner 0.2/0.3
CL: What's with you and woodland creatures / animals in general ? and how in the world do you end up with such fine details ?
AF: guess it all goes back to my youth. My nan used to take me to this place called the Hornimans Museum, not far from where grew up. It has the most amazing display of taxidermy this side of the thames. It even has a stuffed walrus. Its amazing, and i was in total awe of the place! If youre ever in London, definitely pay it a visit!
When was about 8 my parents acquired a stuffed pheasant. used to treat it as a pet. Not take it for walks as such but was pretty obsessed with it. Animals are incredible. The more you study them, the weirder and more fascinating they appear. Thats what makes them so interesting to draw.
As for the fine detail side of how work, im really not sure how that all started. just get lost in what do and feel comfortable creating bigger pieces out of little elements. Its not something purposely set out to do, it was just a natural way of working.
Davide (side B)
"I think everybody should indulge in art.It would be another step towards human evolution."
Davide ZuccoCL: Name / alias / age / location and fav. pastime?
DZ: Davide Zucco, 26 years old. At the moment I haven't lived in any place longer than a few months but I'm hoping to do so very soon. I have lived in Venice and Belluno (where I was born) and I often spend time in New York. I travel around a lot to do stuff and meet nice people. I also like to read and watch a lot of movies.
Music is always on and I love nature. To be surrounded by beautiful places or to be in the middle of a big waterfall or in the middle of a canyon or some other magic place around the Earth is what I like the best
CL: You've done a lot of murals, how would you describe the idea of space and how is it related to your work ?
DZ: Actually I haven't done many murals, only a hand few. I started doing graffiti and of course this gave me the skill to deal with a big wall. After that I did concentrated my attention on painting and drawing and then I got back to the walls but in a different way.
I did translate my painting on wall with more or less the same kind of technique I did on canvases or paper or whatever. The step after that has been to move from the 2 dimension to the 3 dimension. Lately I did an installation with painting on the wall which moved out on to the floor creating an ambience where friends of mine performed a song they did for the work.
I still do think about it as a painting. If you see it you will find out that it's structured and balanced as a painting. Just in 3 dimension instead of 2 and with music and people moving inside of it. Kind of a living painting.
Space is really important to me. I am trying more and more to move my works inside of it. I am working on some sculpture right now to add to my installation.
A big thank you to Andy & Davide, without them the issue wouldn't have been possible. Do drop by their respective websites to check out the works, trust us, they have some wicked works and very killer styles.
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