I talked about Marcelo's work last week, when I found his awesome fashion collages on Flickr. Here is an interview with him, so that we can all learn more about his work. I've included some of his non-fashion collages as well, even though I love those the most!
Name (Real or Screename): Marcelo Stefanovicz
URL (Blog, Website): (my site is not working)
Location (Where are you from?): São Paulo, Brasil
Q: Describe your work in 10 words or less.
A: It's a mixture of "techniques" and feeling, using paint, a cutting knife and a shaking hand.
Q: What do you like to work with (magazines, photographs, vintage)? Be specific!
A: Photographs, vintage papers and magazines, newspapers, books, photocopies, oil and acrylic paint, pastel, water colour, indian ink among other objects (about anything).
Q: How long have you been creating collages and what made you start?
A: About ten years ago I was experimenting with photography and seeing the pictures I made I felt an urge to take the "objects" in it and regroup them, making it closer to how I felt the image should look. But if I remember right I was doing collages and drawings since I was a little child... My schoolbooks were full of it... and I could never find an empty page or a page that was not all glued when I needed it.
Q: Are you solely an artist, or do you work in another profession?
A: I work as a photographer, visual and space design, videomaker, illustrator, etc.
Q: Do you have any formal art training?
A: Kind of, I studied cinema.
Q: Explain your favourite techniques.
A: I love to fragment things by cutting a picture, a painting, breaking a piece of furniture, etc, etc, and rebuilt it in my own way.
Q: Describe your favourite piece ever created.
A: I would love to find my old schoolbooks.
Q: What other artists do you admire?
A: Well... So many... but John Baldessari, John Beech, Edward Albee, Eduardo Recife, Doris Salcedo, Louise Bougeois, Maurizio Cattelan, David Hockney... are the ones I could remember.
Thanks Marcelo!