:::: skatelegs magazine incorporated two thousand and eleven ::::
3/18/11 † LUCIANO SCHERER † INTERVIEW
Can you tell me a little about yourself and where you're from?
My name is Luciano Scherer...I was born in 1987 in Santa Vitória do Palmar, extreme south of Brazil...
Would you say there is an underlying theme behind a lot of the work you do?
Yes, my work is about life and death. And the things between them. And after...
What is your favorite part about where you live?
I live now in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Here I live with friends who paint and play music together, I play guitar too. Here it is different than Sao Paulo, a bigger and noisy city. Here it is easier to date friends and to go anywhere , but back in Sao Paulo I have made real good friends too. I like both.
Is your work derived from particular stories or narratives you make up on your own? Or are your paintings coming from somewhere deeper ingrained in historical archetypes? or both?
Sometimes just after a longtime I can understand what a work signifies in my life, like states of conscience or emotions or feelings, but always in metaphoric ways. Sometimes it goes around other social things, like history, religion, myths, rituals or even nature. Or everything together...
Do you want to take the person viewing your work to another world, in a sense, or just get some type of reaction out of them? or does it matter?
I never think about this specifically, but to me it is a place that I need to go sometimes, the places are a memory of other places but together in another way...
Do you have any specific influences in your work or is it a mixture of your own brain brushed onto the canvas?
Everyone has influences. I really enjoy art so I`m always looking for influences. A little part of everything appears in my work afterwards and while I'm working on a piece. But I study flemish paintings, and naive art as well. I appreciate Brazilian art and alchemical drawings. Botanic materials. Animals. Geometric. Raw art. Lots of things.
Can you tell me a little about your mural painting you do?
Some years ago I was more interested in mural painting and big handmade street posters, but as of right now I prefer working on canvas because it gives me more possibilities and more time to work... But I still enjoy murals.
What about your video work? how do you see video fitting in with your other work you make?
The videos I made always are a collaborative effort. Other peoples work is incorporated into it. The "rubyhead`s ascension" and "Looking for jesus" (animations of the characters in my paintings)… I made with Thiago Medici, a friend who animates in a naive way, that I really enjoy… I think that my video work completes the painting work I do because its actually possible to see the way that certain characters from my paintings interact with each other, beyond the static canvas, with a history, or a "mythological happening" in a sense.
From a first viewing of some of your work, one might note that there are definitely some re-occurring symbols in your work… Can you maybe explain a few?
As Freud said… man lives in a symbolic universe. Language, religion, art… Myths are part of this universe. I just let the symbols flow from my inconscient…my unconscious and conscious…
What are you usually thinking of in regards to content when it comes to creating a new painting? Do you have planned out ideas in your head usually or is it pretty much what becomes of the painting becomes of it?
More often than not I don't think much before. I simply just start to paint and the things starts to appear on their own. But often at times I start with a central idea as a base for painting.
Tell me a little about your animal references… i.e. birds, bats, jesus lizards, crucifix headed creatures, houses with four legs etc..
They are part of my inconscient flow, such as the idea of automatic writing...
How would you compare your older works to what you are doing now? has your work been a constant evolution or are your older works one in the same with the new work?
The work im doing now compared with the work I have done in the past speak about similar ideas, themes, myths… But my painting now is more what I would consider to be "how i want" my composition and technique to look like on a completely aesthetic level. Like one person said before… We always talk about ourselves in art making… And I believe that everyone has a "spiritual style", that comes with you.
Do you have any plans to create any particular type of work in the not too distant future that differs from your work presently?
No, I don't have any plans as of yet… Maybe I will dive deeper into maximalism and sculptures, but with a strong connection between what I make now…
Can you tell me a little bit about the sacrificial references in your work?
In many religions man uses sacrifice with some objectives, like voodoo, "Umbanda" here in Brazil, and many others. I read once that "to exist life needs to exist death," and this makes sense to me. I don't approve, it`s not fair; but its inherent of man in history and culture. I`ve been seeing a lot and it touches me sometimes...
Do you have any sort of ritual you perform before going into creating your next work? Or is your process not that sacred of a process for you?
Normally I study some books, old master paintings too, but my creation process unravels during the painting most of the time
Can you discuss your process a little more in depth? I know that might sound like a pretty redundant question due to the fact this whole interview has pretty much been about your process, in a sense, but can you can elaborate anymore than you already have at all?
I'm self taught and I don't draw much, I take many coffees and I listen to Rock music. Television, Hella, Frusciante, Strokes, Seeds, Beatles, Black Sabbath, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Foals, Elma, Polara, and too many other bands to name. And I talk alone all the time by myself as well...
Who is your favorite artist in any genre?
hieronymus bosch.
Have you even been bitten by a satanic bat, bird or fish creature in your lifetime?
Never, I appreciate them...
Tell me a little bit about your sculptural work.. does it differ from your paintings as far as subject matter?
The sculptures I make up until now have been more like just another way of getting my work realized. I've been seeing ex-votos sculptures… they are artworks like painting of a cure process or a wood sculpture of a piece of your body that you want to heal. Sometimes I make sculptures inspired by them. I want to work more with sculpture soon, making different things. I make some masks too, I really enjoy religious indumentary...
Do you paint with bird or animal blood ever?
No… never, I don't even eat meat.
Is there anything you dislike about painting in general that you want to get off your chest? Is there a tediousness to any of your work or is it all meditative?
I`m just not very into conceptual art, sorry
Do you have any shows coming up or current projects you are working on at the moment you would like to talk about?
Yes, I`m showing at Anno Domini in April 1st, in an exhibition called Glimmer Show, with some paintings. I`m always working so in my website you can find some news www.flickr.com/incrivel
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