An Interview with Sante D’Orazio (Part 2)
“Let the obstacles be your guide. It leads you to places you would never have gone on your own.”
“Let the obstacles be your guide. It leads you to places you would never have gone on your own.”
“In this installation practice, I’ve been really steady with this idea of creating a space that itself becomes generative. I first use my body to create something, but then, the aim is for this thing to be the matrix for its own development.”
“I had a strange notion of being a rock star, which I was immediately disillusioned with when I started meeting actual rock stars, and realizing how difficult it is.”
“It took me my whole life to take myself seriously as a painter.”
The Trops takes pride in standing behind emerging artists, whom you may not have heard of- yet- but you should, and likely soon will. By naming this survey after the Beethoven compositions we are putting forth a bold claim that these voices are heroically breaking through as a force to be reckoned with on the world stage.
“Everybody defines their own way of being an artist. There’s no set rules, what works for you may not necessarily work for me.”
“I try to express that in my canvas; live life to your fullest. So that’s what I’m trying to do.”
“I felt like I was an outcast in the spectacle of this big city, and the only way of escaping was to paint.”
The paintings that still smelled of fresh oil stick were $1,200 or maybe just an even grand. And Dad and I were in that group of New Yorker insiders, with money to spend, yet none of us, nobody… bought one.
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