by Anna Maria Giordano

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Job - Private Collection

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Job paper and acrylic on canvas, 40x80 cm, 2016 exhibited at solo exhib, Galleria Maffei, Padova, October 2016 solo exhib “Pennelli”, Galleria Anacapri, April 2016, Isle of Capri The paper attached on the canvas shows a test, that is freely adapted from “La Vérité sur l’Affaire Quebert”, Éditions de Fallois, 2012; hereunder is the English version: The painters who spend the night to paint, drinking a cup of coffee after another and smoking hand-rolled cigarettes, are just a legend. You need discipline, exactly as for boxing trainings. There are timetables to be respected, exercises to be repeated: keep the rhythm, be tenacious and do everything rigorously. These are the three Cerberi that will protect you from the worst enemy of the painters. Which this enemy? The deadline. Do you know what it means? No. It means that your brain, which is fanciful by nature, is forced to produce according to schedules established by others. It's practically like if you were a lad and your boss ordered you to arrive very precisely at a given place at a given time: you have to make it, no matter if there is traffic or if you got a tire puncture. You can not be late, otherwise you're screwed. And the same thing has to happen with the deadlines that will be imposed by your manager. Your manager is both your husband and your boss: without him you are nothing, but you can’t stop from hating him. But if you can afford this luxury, play with him. It's much more fun.

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