I feel quite insecure.
How is working with Tacchini?
L.P.
I love working with people I get along with.
With Tacchini I immediately felt harmony. I was a little scared.
They already had projects for their screens and I told them:
“Aren’t they better than my works?” and they replied: “No,
yours are unique!”. We have all run the risk, you never know
if the biscuits taste good until you get them out from the oven!
What’s the difference between design and art?
L.P.
Maybe you should see what you do from a less personal
but more decorative point of view. As I work on culture, I am
a very well-informed person in the sense that I am curious.
And I think that many designers are extremely well-informed
about the art as well. Some designers are like artists, as well as
some architects. These fields have been mixed up.
Then would you say that your experience in the design
world has been positive?
L.P.
Some people love to try, others don’t. Loving objects,
I love to try.
What are your plans for the future?
L.P.
I love cinema very much. And just to laugh I always said:
“When I grow up…” — I mean, I love painting and
I love my job! — “…I want to be a film director”. I will shot
in my studio during the night. It will be a night trip in a video
camera. I don’t know if it is movie or direction, or one of my
dreams. Who knows what will happen…
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Lucia Pescador, tell us about yourself.
L.P.
My name is Lucia Pescador, I am an artist. My whole life
I’ve been drawing, I work especially on paper.
We would like to hear about the inspiration
for your works.
L.P.
My main topic since at least twenty years has been the
inventory of the 1900s with the left hand. The 1900 is my
century, even if it is considered as the past century. For me
the past century remain the 1800. I work on the memory
of culture and on the nature, two elements which often weave
together.
In your work you have moved very easily from
paper to other materials. What’s the difference between
these spheres?
L.P.
I love the applied art, I am one of those artists who love
working with their own hands. So clearly between the
product of applied art and the artistic product in my opinion
the terrains blend.
And what about design?
L.P.
I love objects, I am attracted by all objects. I love objects
of feeling, of affection. But design is another thing and
I would say that, if done like this, widened like this, maybe
it is the first time.
Tell us something about the art version of Nebula screens
for Tacchini. How was this project born?
L.P.
I love the screen as object, but I love the classic screen,
because I love the oriental art so much as well. When I was
been told (Oh, that’s nice!) I thought I would have been asked
to create more decorative things. They have proposed me
interiors details instead. I have drawn lots of interiors
because I love architecture. Loving architecture, loving design
and screens, then the rest follows. For me this is new.
Who knows what will happen
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