Interview by Jimon

1-Where did you grow up, and where do you live currently?I grew up in Cagliari suburbs very close to the sea. Also now I live in Sardinia near Cagliari is the place where I love to go in winter time when the tourists are gone, it’s the place where I can find myself.

2-How would you describe Marco Pautasso?  Marco Pautasso was born in 1980 in Cagliari, Sardinia in Italy. His passion for art began at an early age. Marco Pautasso is an emerging painter inspired by nature and the ever changing light and the warm colors typical to Sardinia.

3-Did you have any official training for art?  I’m a self thought painter and I think having no academic background allows me to experiment freely.

4-How did you acquire your style?  My style is influenced by old masters of paintings. I like to mix oil paint with modern materials like spray paint and crayons. His style could be called “informal painting” that rejects rationality, leaning on the spontaneity of the gesture of “tachisme stain”, on the tangible substance, on the element and on the primitive and regressive recovery.

5-The characters in your paintings, what is their origin?  The theme of nature seems to be central to my works, a production that is a bridge between figuration and abstractionism in its finest ramifications, a production that I feel a lot is linked to the relationship between truth and illusion, to play to technical research and to a poetic criticism towards the contemporary world.

6-How do you describe success as an artist?  Well, when I’m in my beautiful villa with a swimming pool above the sea, I’ll let you know.

7-What does Marco Pautasso dream about?  I dream to be in a world where the research of happiness will be a privilege of few people.

8-If you weren’t an artist, what would you have liked to be?  The Prime Minister of Italy.

9-Best advice you ever received in regards to your career as artist?  I think it was when someone told me that my paintings moved them.

10-Name three things you can’t live without in your studio?  The window, a mirror and last but not least a total disorder/chaos.

11-Do you have a person/place/thing that you visit for inspiration?  Just one place can help me find energy and inspiration, this place is the sea.

12-If you could have dinner with three artists living living/dead, who would be at your table?  Diego Velazquez, Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon.

13-How would someone find you on social media? https://www.instagram.com/pautassomarco/