ARTMOIRE : Leo Ragno "Painting has the possibility of making visible what is hidden in reality.

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Q. As a child, what did you wish to become when you grew up?

A. I was very torn between deciding whether to become a footballer or an artist (cartoonist to be precise). I also remember asking my father what he preferred between the two and I hope I didn't disappoint him.

Q. Do you remember the first art you made? What was it and how old were you?

A. At times, for various reasons, my parents did not satisfy me in the requests I made to them, so I drew what I wanted. Putting what I wanted on paper made it real and made it possible to accomplish what I could not have.

Q. How and when did you first become seriously interested in art?

A. I have always had some instinctive and disorderly interest towards the subject but at a rational and concrete level, my dedication started with academic studies.

Q. Tell us about your particular style and how you came to it?

A. It is a long, complex and certainly not yet completed path. In summary, I have arrived at what is my current stylistic code through various passages, choices, considerations, on what the image should be and on what it means. I started from a more realistic pictorial style of painting up to the current one rarefaction of the image and of monochromatism as and when I developed an awareness of the content and meaning of the painting on my pictorial attitude. I have the expressive need to complete the painting relatively quickly so as not to lose control from an

emotional point of view. This need leads me to use few colors and brings me to a synthesis of the vision that corresponds to my intention to portray what counts in the image as if it were a reminiscence, a memory that resurfaces from the fog of memory.

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