i-dee: Clet Hello dear, how are you?
Clet: Hello dear, I love you.
i-dee: ... Thank you so much for this chat. I read enough about you and your new artistic experimentation ... But I do not know many things about Cleto. And then the usual obvious question ... But you know, I know your story so I would like to know if you remember the moment, if there was, when did you realize that you wanted to be an artist.
Clet do not remember a particular moment, in fact I doubt ever will, or power, being an artist.
i-dee: I work in Italy and now in Florence? Why a city artistically difficult as this?
Clet: I arrived in Italy in 1990, in Rome, a friend of mine offered me a 'job opportunities as a restorer of furniture in his shop. So for me the important thing was to get out of France, discover new cultures, facing difficulties unknown substance in LIVE. Then I was in Italy, definitely something I like here.
i-dee: One day I felt angry about how the Florentine institutions ignore and do not gratify personality artistic, like you, who have chosen this city to work. Why do you think this indifference? Why this "policy of no value"? Want to say something?
Clet: I find that wherever the usual mechanisms. Those in power tend to want to protect their privileges, those who have no right to power tends to destabilize the power too, it's just a distribution of roles according to their characters. In Florence, the artistic power rests on its Renaissance heritage, and I, as an artist, I owe it to destabilize this really lazy.
i-dee: What do you want, artistically speaking, to Florence?
Clet: The ability to question itself, an indispensable condition to be able to grow.
i-dee: How long have you started doing street art? Do you think that you have made your search more 'free' by an artistic point of view? Feelings ... you know ... But since I have seen in recent years so I see you and you feel different ...
Clet: We would have to redefine the term "street art" which to me just want to say "art in the street" in the sense of art enjoyed by all. Then, in the "street art", we can distinguish two main categories, which are official and unofficial. Michelangelo's David is therefore an example of street art to which official Florence denies the contemporary comparison. Florence wants to free itself to accepting the challenge of comparison with the Renaissance. I'm ready.
i-dee: The "world" love your performances ... If you think back a few years ago, you felt truly "loved" by the world or, now with your "output" in the world, you have got completely conscience?
Clet: The desire to be loved in all of us, perhaps the artist is living in a more "absolute" and therefore seeks to establish broad consensus. What can I say ... it's a cross, but also a requirement that extreme forces you to find you the very best, at this point so be it.
i-dee: a ... night I met you in S. Nicholas, a few words about how our day went and then we talked about an art project in progress and you told me that the art expression for you ...
Clet: Define the art would be like trying to define the world. I only know that my energies are limited as my life, I would like to make the most and produce more and more "things" that have maximum impact, I appear to be in that moment the greatest thing that I can give, I want to be useful , and used, at most.
i-dee: Question "white" ... Imagine that you would like to receive the document ...
Clet: "You want to make love with me? "This is the question I want to hear, then answer me for who I am, I'll keep the question.
i-dee: Cletus, AmicoArtista, congratulations for your "flash", for your artistic and ... for your courage! Keep it up!
Clet: Thank you, you keep going, really.
Lau: I love you too!
Thanks for the BLOG http://ideeadarte.blogspot.com/
Created by LAU (interview, signed by Lau) and Valerio Conti (photo). Taken
Clet Abraham to host UDG Thursday evening at 22.00
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