Let’s define the artist Carlo Rudari through 5 fundamental questions:
– To start getting to know you through your website visitors, define Carlo Rudari artistically.
I am a man who feels his creative emotions through silence. Detaching myself from the ordinariness of the day, I seek those moments of contact with the material, slowly shaping the forms of the work to ask the work itself who I am, as I give it life and “soul.”
– How does your creative process work?
For me, everything starts from the material. The material is the essence of the work, and the idea, the creative thought from which the work originates, is formed from the material. The mental vision of the subject I create is generated by the sensations I feel at a particular moment, from a situation or a place, or even from silence.
– Did you seek Art, or did it find you? How did you come into contact with Art?
The truth is that we sought each other; I sought it externally while it sought me internally. My first steps were as a child, playing with pieces of wood, searching for shapes. Then, as I grew older, attending Art School and artisan workshops. Over the years, I acquired new tools of expression, allowing me to create forms through my emotions, making art an integral part of my being as a man who creates.
– Which artists or artistic movements have inspired you?
The artists I admire most and who have certainly influenced me are Constantin Brâncuşi, Marino Marini, and Pericle Fazzini, but certainly all modern art has had an impact on my formation and inspiration.
– Is there a subject or technique you have not yet explored that represents a challenge for the future?
One of the subjects I would like to represent someday is the soul, but I am also very fascinated by ballerina bodies and women’s faces. The expressive force that fascinates me most is the wind, represented as a breath of strength and lightness.
– Where do you draw inspiration from? What do you want to communicate to the observer through your works?
I would like my works to leave in the eyes of those who view them the beauty of the material seen through the forms, an expression of the profound and silent creative moment. The observer should be enveloped by this emotion, bringing them closer to the mystery that the work expresses. Inspiration comes from every form I see in any object, leading me to sculpt wood and shape forms with all the strength of the creative moment.