b-loud: Daniele Villa: Expect the Unexpected

// March 3rd, 2010 // b-loud // Beatrice

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Hands, glue and scissors are the three things which make this artist so fabulous.

Daniele Villa, 36 years old, is an Italian collages’ artist based in Rome and member, such as founder, of the “Citrullo International”. This independent film production company, focused on documentaries, animations, books and cinema allows him to experience several forms of art. Creativity and technical skills are the main ingredient of his works, mixed with an accurate use of colours, forms and different materials. As Max Ernst, one of his favourite artists, said: “Si ce sont les plumes qui font le plumage ce n’est pas la colle qui fait le collage”, If it’s not the feather that makes a plumage, then it’s not the glue that makes a collage.

Read on to find out more about this amazing artist!

b-Loud:

b-uncut: What was your first artwork?
DV: I used to send funny postcards to friends using photomontage and collage. I loved the fact of sending a unique work that could not be repeated, and, of course, I loved the effect of displacement that the collage technique allows.

b-uncut: The artists you like the most and why?
DV: I love Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Cornell, two real poets. Their approach toward the materials they used was deep and touching. I love the Schwitters’ motto: ‘one can use waste material to shout out loud’. They were in a way two outsiders which worked by themselves, obsessed by their dreams and with an imaginary universe of their own.

b-uncut: The one you hate the most and why?
DV: I (almost) learned not to hate anybody. I simply don’t like pretentious artists which don’t have enough talent to justify their vanity.

b-uncut: What did it take to make it where you are now?
DV: I don’t know where I am, but anyway I believe that it’s always like this: you have to feed your love for something with your true passion and work on it. Sometimes, if your love is true, you succeed to reach a certain degree of sincerity in what you do. And that is important for your true happiness.

b-uncut: Who has helped you along the way?
DV: Friends which encouraged me to show my works around.

b-uncut: What are your methods? Your inspiration?
DV: I don’t work so much, in terms of time. I can work for one day and make several collages which really make me satisfied, and then stop for a month. The execution is quick. It seems that I reach a certain point and then my subconscious is ready to ‘read’ the materials and make a synthesis in few minutes.

b-uncut: If I ask you to describe your art, would it be redundant to describe yourself?
DV: Of course the art objects and the artist that makes it are related. The only thing I can say is that I chose collage because with this technique you find more than searching for something specific. And I love that sense of surprise. Moreover I’m a bad painter.

b-quick:

b-uncut: The swear word you like the most?
DV: I love all them.

b-uncut: The flaws a woman should have to seduce you?
DV: She has to be funny.

b-uncut: Your parents’ advice you haven’t followed?
DV: Wash your hands.

b-uncut: The talent you wouldn’t want to have?
DV: To be so funny.

b-uncut: The person you’d like to be hated by?
DV: Nobody.

b-uncut: The question I should never ask you?
DV: The one before.

b-honest: Where do you see yourself in..

5 seconds? Here.
5 minutes? Here.
5 days? Here.
5 months? Here.
5 centuries? Dead.

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