• December 1, 2008
  • Posted by Marc

Sten: The A’s To Our Q’s

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Hometown: Rome
Where do you now live?: Rome
Where would you most like to live?: I fear any thing is not Rome, then Rome.
Who was your first “hero” in life?: My cousin, he’s called Leone “Lion” and he was 4 older than me.
What is your favorite thing to do on your day off from work?: Fishing with Lex on the Tevere river.
What is your favorite color?: Red
Who (or what) do you love?: I love Beatrice like Dante.
Who and/or what are some of your influences? I like everything is printed since the print was born. So I like Piranesi, Dorè and the daily newspapers. And I love the stuff of Bast and Faile. I admire the way of JR of pasting up the same poster over different planes and surfaces; in that way the poster became the wall. But influences mostly comes by Alessandra and by the churchs of Rome.

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Wooster: What other artists do you most admire?

My favorites street artists are Blu, Giotto, Swoon, N4t4, Bergognone, Gaia, Rello Rocca, Gentile da Fabriano, Madame Archer, Raffaello, Vhils, Lex.

Wooster:How would you describe your art to someone who could not see it?

I mostly work in black and white my stencils and my posters remember the prints in black and white. I work mostly with half tone, dots, points, pixels., lines, I called this way of cutting stencil “hole school”. I like the mix between the abstract pattern that you see in a close view and the realism you can note by a far view. I do mostly portraits of anonymous persons and of a girl I know.

Wooster:What do you fear the most?

Twin Peaks

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Wooster:What is your greatest ambition?

To be a champion of “calcio” like Roberto Baggio.

You can see more of Sten’s work here.