We wanted to connect Ubicuo Studio projects with the previous projects we’ve been working the last years and Carpaccio Magazine is one of them. From the need of keeping innovating in the fields of new media – the way we show and display contemporary art – and the need of keeping on promoting emerging artists,… an App is born!

Carpaccio Magazine Wallpapers App (named in the App Store as: Art Wallpapers Exhibition) is like mutant exhibition where you can take a look at the works of emerging artists, you can visit their websites, share their works through twitter and mail and, of course, you can download the images and use them as wallpapers for your iPhone and iPod touch.

We’ve published 33 issues in less than 3 years and we’ve met tones of emerging artists – this App is a new way we’ve found to keep promoting these great artists and, of course, to say thank you to them.

Hope you like the App!

It’s free and whitout ads!

We’ll be updating it every week – so stay tuned.

· How everything began, Monica?

Unlike most, when I was a child I never enjoyed drawing. I had cra
yon boxes and some inks and I used to enjoy keeping and observing them. It was not until the adolescence when I began to draw! I used to copy characters from comic books and really soon I felt the need to learn a little bit more…then I started a drawing course and after that, I did a xylography and lithography course. My grandfather had a letterpress company, that’s why engraving became an immediate passion, I identified myself with the process and I wanted to learn more and more, when I decided to study Fine Arts.

· When did you decide to dedicate yourself to the production of artworks fulltime? Had you ever imagined that this could happen to you?

I really committed myself to artistic production three years ago, but it was my goal since when I decided to be a visual artist in my adolescence. As in any profession you need investment, studies and time for an economic return.

Reviewing your designs full of excesses, compositions, colours…

· Do we find in them some indigenous cultural heritage?

 My first contact with pattern design was through indigenous graphics, I was studding body painting when I discovered a book published by Lux Vital about patter design, which was the beginning of an obsession. I bought some books about this subject and soon I started to insert these ideas in my drawings. Now a day, I study pattern design from a larger viewpoint, in different cultures and with different perspectives.

· The spot colours in your illustrations seem to be made by computer. How do you get this effect?

It needs patience, good inks and opaque pigments, preferably. In some cases, instead of brush I use roller to define colour areas with a sticky mask. There are some “tricks” to get a plane area with well-defined edge that facilitates the process.

· The easy way with which you describe magical places and situation fascinates us…How do you manage to create these sophisticated compositions?

I usually define a concept and the colours that I’m going to use in the composition. Then, I prepare the base of the ink with half-tone palette and I define the first image. Generally, his first image is a human figure, from which surrounding environment around will be born. Then I start adding random items on the canvas and each new element raises the next. Is a process of pasting images one over each other, till through the overload information the image becomes a coherent whole.

· We can see that colour is one of the major aspects in your work…Which one never lacks in Monica Rizzoli artworks?

When I begin a painting I do some colour research to define the palette colour that will define the design and I try to create a different and certain palette for each work. But sometimes, there are recurrent colours, like PBr 7 (raw number), which has been very important to me in recent times.

Let’s talk about more specific projects that we find particularly interesting…Even in the college you were the creator of theoretical-practical event called [In.CoRpo.Ro]…

· What did this event involve exactly? What importance it has had in your career as an artist?

[In.Corpo.Ro] was first presented in 2004 and it succeeded in bringing together five artists and two artists associations in a performances evening inside an art gallery.

The second edition was actually on the street, with three performances in the interior of Sao Paulo metro. In the third edition in 2005, in addition to the performances there were conferences and theoretical debates.

In 2006, Priscilla Davanzo and I organized a pdf magazine with articles that talked about the idea of the event and actually, that was the last thing that was done in [In.CoRpo.Ro]. At that time I also conducted performances and, in fact, was then when I started being interested in indigenous body paintings and in the different ways of understanding and representing the human body, what now a day is very important in my work.

After your university time, you worked on a project called “Fêmea” with which you surprise us with a number of different representations of the sexual act, where you explicitly depict intercourses and penetrations…

· How an artist from Sao Paulo gets to talk about this such a complex subject in her country?

Actually, sex is a complicated issue in Brazil, there are many divergent views on the matter, but no consensus. I prefer to understand sex as something inherent in our lives, as something common. Talk about sex becomes easy then, it’s like talking about ourselves, our needs, desires and complexes.

· Do you think the viewer is able to overcome the banality of the first moment and enjoy your artwork without prejudices or fear?

I would like to think so, although this not always happen.

Monica, we are going to close with some short questions…

·From where does the inspiration for your paintings arise?

 From work and daily research.

 · Which is the most Brazilian aspect of your work and which the least?

I don’t know what to answer in this question…

 · Which advice would you give to an artist who is just starting out now?

 I would say: be persistent, dedicated and curious!

Interview by Lara Costafreda, Carpaccio Magazine Collaborator. Some of her artworks were published in Carpaccio Magazine vol.5

Monica Rizzolli website

Hope you like it!

Cover: Can Dagarslani

Collaborators: Akin Çetin, Aleksandra Kabakova, Arlette Mar, Can Dagarslani, Cecilia Sánchez Sánchez, Cristina Riera Solé, Gastón Torres, Hamishi Hamishi, Jennifer Leigh Evans, Jörn Schirok, Julien Brachhammer, Katarzyna Szugajew, Katherine Squier, Libertine, Lionel Williams, Marco Ferraris, Maren Becker, María de la O Garrido, Masha Manapov, My.s – Art & Design, Paolo Morales, Tyrone Williams & Yoav Peled

Vitaliy and Elena Vasilieva penetrate, confront, live a state of collaborative creativity “… we don’t share our creativity, we make it a unique thing, the result of our own…”

Bodies almost interweave in a struggle, then gain their identity back in a mathematical order, then again they are arranged and catalogued on shelves just like files waiting to be skimmed through. They live in different spaces, indoors, inside the halls of the M17 contemporary art centre, or outdoors, among the sky, clouds and wind, to become a real “border between nature and culture”.

More about “NO ART” at their website: noartproject.com
“NO ART” book published by Atem Books
“NO ART” also available on the App Store

We’ve published:
- 11 Carpaccio Magazine online issues
- 3 Carpaccio Guides to emerging illustrators, photographers & artists
- 13 printed books
- 1 book for iPad

We redesigned Atem Books & Carpaccio Magazine website!
We started a new project called Ubicuo Studio!
We attended to Ilu Station (Barcelona), Les Rencontres d’Arles – Le Village (Arles, France), Photo+Art Hamburg Book Fair (Hamburg) book fairs.
We curated a Carpaccio Magazine exhibition at Gatos de Marte, contemporary photography gallery (Murcia, Spain)
We participated in Little Big Press (Rome, Italy), nofound_photofair @ the black box (Paris, France), La noche de los libros mutantes (Madrid, Spain), Oh My Book photo exhibition (Arles, France), Photobook London (London, UK)…
And last but not least: we met a lot of amazing people.

We’ll keep working to keep growing in 2012!
At this moment we’re working on the printed version of Tusk by Ana Cabaleiro, we’re working on the iPad version of Unlimited Sobrassada, we know that we’ll attend to MIA FAIR Foto+Videoart fair (Milan, Italy)… and we’re also working on a special Carpaccio Magazine App (for iPhone/iPods touch and iPad and it will be downloadable for free!) that will be out really soon :)

“Using the sea as a common theme, the exhibition explores the mixed bag of human emotion that floods through us when we are faced with an expanse of shores and deep waters. From voyage and a craving for adventure to nostalgia and a sense of belonging, the sea is intriguing and reminds us how close we are to the next adventure and how far we have traveled from where we began. ‘Next to the Sea’ plays on that dichotomy of wanderlust and nostalgia, and at a more intimate level the contrast between where we have been and where we will go.”

The show runs from January 8 through February 5, 2012.
The opening reception will be held Sunday evening, January 8 from 5-8 pm.

Artists:

Pierre Botardo
David Hochbaum
Jacob Dahlstrup Jensen

Pierre Botardo

Pierre Botardo

Pierre Botardo

Pierre Botardo

Jacob Dahlstrup Jensen

Jacob Dahlstrup Jensen

Jacob Dahlstrup Jensen

David Hochbaum

David Hochbaum