I started making these textile drawings-collages when the Covid 19 started in February 2020; I have been reading Gertrude Stein's "Picasso" at that time and as never before in my life I felt empathetic toward the great master.
I had been amused and inspired by Oldenburg's "Soft Picasso" ever since I was an art student. I used to think that discovering the soft, the feminine side of Picasso could have been very interesting, but actually impossible because he has many times been characterized as a man who feared women
...Let's try to imagine Picasso in his daily life in 1930, in a lack of canvas, brushes and other supplies during the great depression...another widespread great crisis of the 20th century...
You can find his works published in "Document", the magazine founded and directed by George Bataille between 1929-1930. The artworks of that period mesmerized me and I started making copies of them recycling table-clothes and garments purchased in a second hand shop, in order to obtain surfaces for my sketches.
While I was drawing and sewing the pieces I experienced the mystery of his space and his vision, I felt his struggles , rather than an irreverent sentiment as it was in my expectations.
