Since he was a child he draws and colors; at the first elementary and middle schools, his teachers noticed more than himself and his parents the inherent artistic skills in a distracted child! Their advice was to undertake artistic institutes, but he himself decided to undertake something else and shortly, after middle school, drawing and painting ended up as old and boring toys taking cobwebs in a dark and dusty attic. Time passed and art was never discussed again for decades, when around the year 2006/2007 he accidentally went in via Premuda, at the skatepark in Reggio Emilia and there he saw closely, for the first time, a spectacular graffiti of the Reggio-Emilia writer Evyl and he fell in love with it, he spent all evening looking at it and a familiar but at the same time new enthusiasm moved inside him, because past memories on drawing were suppressed. After that day he decided to try, but since he had no PC nor the internet, he had to make do with something else, he started to draw as much as he could and bought sprays at the ironmongery, he went to the walls and he tried! At the beginning it was hard, then the memories slowly came out and he just understood that he was more inclined to start drawing real life with the spray, rather than letters, even there, it was very difficult, but he saw results and improvements as he continued. He experimented a bit of everything, from the brush to the stencil, but what he has always preferred is the spray, everything is always drawn by hand, only in this way he could improve technically! Time passed and between highs and lows, mistakes, everything to be redone, pauses of reflection more or less long, etc., we arrive today; today, become Tackle Zero, he learned only a simple and obvious thing from all his chaotic artistic path: that one never ceases to improve.
Sin da piccolino disegnava e colorava, alle prime scuole, elementari e medie, i maestri e le maestre che aveva, notarono più che lui stesso e i suoi genitori, le capacità artistiche, insite in un bambino distratto! Il loro consiglio fu di intraprendere istituti artistici, ma lui stesso, decise di intraprendere tutt’altro e poco dopo le scuole medie, il disegno e la pittura, finirono come vecchi e noiosi giocattoli a prendere ragnatele in una buia e polverosa soffitta. Il tempo trascorse e di arte non se ne parlò mai più per decenni, quando circa nell’anno 2006/2007 si recò accidentalmente in via Premuda presso lo skatepark di Reggio Emilia e li vide un graffito spettacolare di Evyl (Writer) da vicino, per la prima volta e se ne innamorò, rimase tutta la sera ad osservarlo e dentro di se si mosse un entusiasmo famigliare ma allo stesso tempo nuovo, perchè i ricordi passati sul disegno erano soppressi. Dopo quel giorno decise di provare, non avendo ancora un PC nè internet, dovette arrangiarsi con altro, riprese a disegnare come poteva e comprò spray da ferramenta, andò sui muri e provò! All ‘inizio fu dura, poi i ricordi affiorarono pian piano e comprese molto semplicemente che era piu propenso ad iniziare a disegnare figure dal vero con lo spray, piuttosto che le lettere. Sperimentò un pò di tutto, dal pennello, allo stencil, ma ciò che preferisce da sempre è lo spray, tutto sempre disegnato a mano libera, solo cosi potè migliorare tecnicamente! Il tempo trascorse e tra alti e bassi, errori, tutto da rifare, pause di riflessione più o meno lunghe ecc. ecc. arriviamo ad oggi; oggi divenuto Tackle Zero, ha imparato solo una semplice e palese cosa da tutto il suo caotico percorso artistico: che non si smette mai di migliorarsi.
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