Italian artist Vincenzo Reda spills wine on canvas to understand human fantasies. The Guide soaks up his art
Italian artist Vincenzo Reda spills wine on canvas to understand human fantasies. The Guide soaks up his art
If creativity doesn't stun, it isn't worth the hullabaloo. For Italian artist Vincenzo Reda, however, hype comes easy. He paints the world in wine, and art, to him, is a sip of Armagnac.
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Stroking the spirit
Vincenzo has put 15 paintings up for view, each with a theme as remarkable as his palette. "Way back in 1993, when I was sitting in a restaurant, a few drops of wine fell on a business card. When I looked at it after two-three months, I noticed that some interesting motifs had been formed. It was a pretty pattern. That's where the idea of wine painting originated. Now, when I leave my wine glass half empty, I spill the remaining drink systematically on paper", says the artist. That's not where the work ends. "I wait for several days, weeks and months to allow the fluid to settle. The colour depends on the colour of wine and paper used. When I decide on a particular wine, I try finding out its maker, and the vineyards where it was been produced. " Though regular watercolour sheets are used as canvas, the painter studies the history of each wine before using it. The selected wines are stored at different temperatures to intensify or shrink the colour densities. The abstract works are recreation of his own psychological perceptions, he explains.
The world loves his wine
Vincenzo has already been using red and white wine on paper, cloth and glass, and has displayed them across the globe, in Italy, USA, South Africa, Brazil, Germany and Russia. "I'm obsessed with glasses and stains. I imagine them in different forms and sizes, like trees, sky, women and many more. My art is attached with the culture of wine.That's why people relate to my paintings u2014their fantasies are same as mine," says the artist, who's also a keen theatrist and photographer. You can't not sip on this.u00a0
The Mystical Goblet
At: The Med, Radisson Hotel, NH 8
Timings: 12.45 pm to 3.30 pm, 7.30 pm to 11 pm
On till: December 6
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