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Antonio
Nunziante
AMM: What’s your inspiration? Torment when I recognize that I have not reached the goal, and
Antonio Nunziante: Beauty and Mystery. Each painting is made the sacred spark that gives the artwork the status of superior is
of hidden confessions in which the dream mixes the memories, hidden. Therefore, I have to start again and again, until a par-
obtaining a reality that, transformed into a vision, allows me to tial status of fulfillment is reached, even if temporary. I have to
create something, to tell without opening my mouth. I manage start again a journey that will take me to the goal of sublime,
to show the invisible of Beauty to people who can only see the without forgetting what I have found along the way, without
superficial part of it. forgetting the “things” that I know. I need to paint like the air
that I breathe.
AMM: What are you looking to do next?
Antonio Nunziante: Metaphysical is not something that was in- AMM: What is your process?
vented yesterday. I feel the need to move my research back in Antonio Nunziante: My language is transversal, my pictorial
time, along the track of secular art. writing is poetic and easy to read, it is of immediate and appar-
ent attraction.
The society in which we live in is a logical society, it marks a limit, True realism consists in representing the surprising things hid-
a frontier, a belt that closes and surrounds “human logic.” The den under the veil of habit and which we are no longer able to
metaphysical painter finds himself there, consumed by the fears see. Make ordinary things extraordinary. Contemporary logic
of search because he wants to find his Arcadia, his risen earth- considers all that can be bypassed by modern technology to be
ly paradise. The path is long and tiring, but the metaphysical useless, but I consider the knowledge of technology a philoso-
painter is wise and knows many “things.” phy, a science, a sublime way to reach my goal: to paint Beauty.
AMM: What is art to you?
Antonio Nunziante: Torment and Ecstasy, happiness for the su- If interested in Antonio Nunziante artwork please contact
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