Fludd Interview / 62. Viola Niccolai

A) NAME : Viola Niccolai

B) WHERE ARE YOU FROM? : Monte Amiata, Southern Tuscany - Italy

C) HOW OLD ARE YOU? : 28

D) YOUR SPHERE OF INTERESTS : Drawing, painting, illustration, woodcut

E) STUDIES : Visual Arts at Fine Arts Academy in Florence, Editorial Illustration in Bologna.

F) COULD YOU PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT DO YOU DO/HAVE YOU DONE? : I studied Painting for four years. For the first two teachers used to tell us: “you won’t paint until you can’t draw before”. and then, when I began to study illustration, I forgot to paint for about other three years. I hope one day to go back to the old big canvas sizes, trying to combine both things.

G) 3 MASTERS : Velazquez, Francis Bacon, Grandfather


H) 1 INSPIRING CITY : Catania


I) A PLACE YOU’D LOVE TO VISIT SOON : Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul

J) 1 SPECIAL MUSEUM : Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris

K) 1 RECOMMENDED WEB­SITE : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ35Q8X6xDk + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSigBkU5wdI (So sorry I couldn’t find the whole episode!)


L) FAVOURITE ICE CREAM FLAVOUR : Marron Glacés


M) A SHOP YOU LOVE : Bakeries


N) 2 OBJECTS YOU LIKE : roadman’s houses, wood frames.

O) YOUR IDEAL BREAKFAST : coffee, half of a pistachio croissant and half of a ricotta croissant, sea.

P) SOMEWHERE NICE TO GO IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD : Monte Labbro, Bagni San Filippo (hot springs), Val d’Orcia.

Q) LAST BOOKS YOU HAVE READ : Ben Shahn, The shapes of content.

R) WHAT ARE A FEW THINGS INSPIRING YOU AT THE MOMENT? : thermal baths, swimsuits, old little volumes of art, + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeThZARdshg

S) WHICH IS THE MAIN DIFFICULTY FOR A YOUNG CREATIVE TODAY? : Avoiding to be self­-referential and constantly looking for new challenges to improve his work.

T) WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE COLLECTIVE DIMENSION OF ART AND CREATIVITY? : You must create a high degree of empathy when you’re working with someone else. It’s like a secret path in which you trust the other and viceversa, otherwise, of course you can make a compromise, but you have to be sure you trust yourself 100% at first.

U) WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? : freshness in sign.


V) WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD? : a longer Summer.

W) PROJECTS FOR THE FUTURE : dream of making one of the cover of my favorite singer’s future CD’s.

X) WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO STUDY WHEN YOU’LL BE OLD? : Interior design

Y) A GOOD PURPOSE FOR THE 2016 SEASON : cleaning up my studio, remembering to wash my brushes once I use them, then, doing a very very big painting.

Z) WHAT DOES THE WORD “FLUDD” SUGGEST YOU? : Aquamarine color. Something like a glass block one second before becoming a glass block.


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