Artists | ITALY & PARIS Interview
-How do you give form to a thought for which there are no word and no definitions?
To be renewed is funny. Invading a space is an ongoing challenge. The sign evolves in time and space; the sign becomes shape. I seek the plasticity of the shape, with nature, and I experiment with new materials. I seek the rigor of the shape.
-What drove you to represent a way of being the world?
To create simply a new world. Simplicity is simply hard to reach, above all to discover. I summarize. I subtract from micro to macro. I seek new formulas. 10+11 is 21, divided by two is 10.5.
-Everyone knows that marketing uses repetition to make items recognizable, often launching artists such as yourself to fame. How would you describe your experience and/or relationship with repetition and/or fame?
In my opinion, repetitiveness is research. Picasso repeated order to find the sign he is looking for, but ‘to find’ takes many years of study. The guarantee is the time passing by, the works remain. The materials an artist uses are important. They have to guarantee that the work lasts over the years. Action is molding a new material. The work is mental. I’m not anxious about “fame.” One must maintain his enthusiasm and be able to always generate it. Slow and patient study rewards everybody.
-Do you think that the essential network of acquaintances and relationships an artist must always create and deal with improves the artist’s ability to keep his identity and that of his works alive, or does it promote the trendy image of the artist most pertinent to the context of fashion?
It is on ongoing voyage, abounding in conquests and discoveries. Art is energy that involves everybody in a great vortex, and the encounter generates new emotions. I have always enjoyed modeling air. In air there are no borders. Create a shape without borders…I am light.
Massimo Tantardini with Marcello Cinque
-I often hear it said that, from a certain point on, the generations have simply been without teachers. Though this might be true in part, it seems a rather simplistic way of concluding the discussion. Some of the responsibility lies with editors and curators, who out of ignorance, have failed to create certain contexts that provide the new generations with essential background in their place in history. I would be curious to know about your background, and what your references are.
I studied painting at the academy of Fine Arts in Naples. Italian Art History is strongly characterized by the study of the plasticity of the form, in both painting and sculpture. Just think of Giotto, Masaccio, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Canova and the contemporary artists – Pino Pascali, Lucio Fontana and Gino de Dominicis. These are the masters I have always looked at with great interest. Drawing and painting are the heart of my sculptures.
-But what does heart have to do with art and sculpture?
Everything is emotion – of shapes, colors and passions. Art creates, art enchants. Culture leaves wealth to humanity.
For more information about Marcello Cinque’s work and how to buy his artworks, please go to
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