Ivano Vitali - Maxi gomitoli e arazzi con la carta riciclata I am an ecologist, a sculptor and a performer. These three identities together led me to use printed paper for my creations. I love feeling paper in my hands, hoping that other people can be inspired by my work to recycle. I love thinking that it is possible to save our ecosystem and that future generations will benefit from my work as an artist. I love seeing in my finished works their stiffnes, how similar they are to the trees they come from. I love creating sort of archives not only with my “tape-stries” and “tape-centres” but with every new work which gathers stories, images, advertisements of the past.
I start by ripping a newspaper into stripes, then I make a thread out of them,
overlapping the two ends of the stripes without using water or glue, but just twisting
them together. I avoid using glue because the thread would lose softness and elasticity
and, by drying, it would create corners difficult to be knitted. I never add colours: the
only colours I use are those I find in printed
paper: sometimes the background is already coloured, other times I select pages of
advertisements in a certain colour, which I then transform into balls. Once the balls are
ready I knit the thread, or I crochet it or I weave it with a loom, following the
traditional procedures and the projects I
have.
My works are poor and precious at the same time. Ivano Vitali home page comunicato home of the paper |