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June 25, 2004
Profile: Crasto
Age: 24
Hometown: palermo-bilbao- milan
Where do you now live?: milan
Where would you most like to live?: bilbao
Who was your first "hero" in life?: when i was child probably a soccer player called Toto Schillacci
What is your favorite thing to do on your day off from work?: see friends, hang around, draw, stick & paste things around
What is your favorite color?: red
Who (or what) do you love?: i love the sea most of all
Who and/or what are some of your influences?
I started to get interested in the field of street art since i saw Barry mc Gee's (Twist) work at the Venice Art Biennal in about 2001, it was great i had this huge wall painted in red in front of me full of white drips and funny carachters, i saw paintings on bottles, a painted van in the middle of an art gallery so i definitely understood the big visual power which lays back this forms of art.
What other artists do you most admire?
when i started studying at an illustration course ihere in milan i falled in love with Enki Bilal's style of drawing, then i knew Daniel Zezelji definitely one of my favourites for his use of light and shadows, and for the mysterious, dreaming atmosphere he creates. In more traditional art my favourites painters are Caravaggio and Gustav Klimt.
How would you describe your art to someone who could not see it?
My topic now is the television, it doesn't matter to have a own contraddistintive style, i like to explore the different possibilities of a same idea, it doesn't matter the drawings is well or bad done. Once i was more pessimistic so i designed ugly, bored faced trapped inside of tv screens with a stencil style, now i'm trying to be more ironic, to make laugh so i 'm drawing this funny faced tv-dudes and other strange charachters interacting with tvs.
What other talent would most like to have?
definitely music! i play the guitar but as the other gutar-player is better than me he plays the solo-parts while i play hte rhythm guitar.
What do you fear the most?
to have to work as an advertising designer and to stay in front of a computer screen for all my life!
What is your greatest ambition?
find happiness for future life.
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