Simone Zaccagnini
(Pescara, Italy, 1982).
Lives and works in Berlin.
“I chose the discipline of drawing as the only possible form of prayer and strenght. When I play music – with Canti In Asociale and Overknights – my name is Low’N’Zac.”
“I don’t like talking about my work, it’s as if I was spoiling the sense of it, or changing its nature and dynamics. Parcelling it up politely but uselessly.
I know for sure that I do everything whit my drawing. It’s my vitamin, my detective’s office, it enables me to give dignity, “enter into contact” with what I encounter. It’s the map of my life – as inexact as it is accurate.Drawing is a private/cosmic/comic/ethical/
Drawing is building an image without having to explain it, or put sub-titles to it, it saves you from slipping into the total, mortal boredom of the principles of knowledge; it keeps you out of the bigoted logic of information, taboos, the arrogance of social system. It’s being suspended in the room before you enter it. Before you’re born.
I think that art is a white magic, it is irreversible and lives outside the framework
of language, beyond rhetorical mental associations.
A “jamais-vu”. An amnesia.
It continually register events and experiences
It codifies received information
It retrieves archived information
It is seeing what we know about things without the filters.
Really.”