#art, FEATURES by VALENCIARTIST: Fabian Fiasco

I think you will truly enjoy this article/interview by this magnificent artist from The Netherlands, who goes by the name of Fabian Fiasco. I am sure many of you know him from our blogosphere. You can find his site here.

FIASCO IN HIS OWN WORDS

VALENCIARTIST: What makes an artist? And, naturally, what makes you an artist?

FF: That is not easy to answer, as far as I am concerned many answers are possible. Creative people who make things, such as writers, painters, actors, sculptors, but also craftsmen and architects and so on.

Before I really focused on painting, I was a mason for almost my entire working life, working on beautiful houses. And when beautifully designed buildings or homes are built, as a mason I also thought that was a kind of art.

And what makes me an artist is that I don’t actually say I am an artist, but the people here in this beautiful village call me an artist. They did that from the very beginning when I opened a studio here and they saw my painting work. There are millions of people who make so much better and more beautiful work than I do, and I really say with amazement, wow, they are real artists.
My paintings are not really meant to hang above your bed or in the living room, because who wants me life-size naked on a chair above their bed?
But maybe being an artist is just a kind of lifestyle that has been romanticized in history and stories. In that respect, I live life as an artist, with a difficult character included.

Maybe I like to play the artist.

VALENCIARTIST: Should artists engage in social/political activities, or speak out against injustices, real or perceived? Is an artist a good representative of the «people» to be able to give opinions (at times controversial), proffer ideas or criticise government plans, laws, procedures or ideological philosophies?

FF: On the one hand I think so, but on the other hand I think that when I hear all those actors on the news or talk shows telling me who I should vote for or what is good for my health. Then, I think “shut the fuck up” and stick to your work and just entertain me.

And I think you should always speak out against injustice, real or perceived. However, this is also difficult to define, because everyone has different beliefs behind it. But I do think that there is some kind of natural morality that justifies that. I also sometimes think, get up and stop acting like a child, because nowadays you will hurt someone’s feelings if I farted yesterday.

Is an artist a good representative of the ‘people’ to be able to express (sometimes controversial) opinions, put forward ideas or criticize government plans, laws, procedures or ideological philosophies? Pffff that’s a tough one. Musicians make protest songs about wars and governments and/or companies. Philosophers and writers think and write about everything in and around what happens in society and life. It is difficult to give controversial opinions, because many opinions and ideas are often created through other means, for example propaganda or indoctrination through various institutions and institutions. And laws, we can spend a very long and different interview on that, because that and everything about politics interests me very much.

I’m arrogant enough to think that I’m convinced that almost no one is really aware of what really goes on behind closed doors. Something I have looked into all of it, and I have studied many new laws in many countries, which really made me scratch my head and think why did they do that? Now in the times we live in nowadays, if you are critical, and it doesn’t matter whether you are an artist or an ordinary citizen, if you are critical, and it goes against the so-called established order, then you are dismissed as the most terrible person there is. Yet I think it is very important to be and remain critical.

But I think talking about politics is not easy, because I don’t think most people really understand how and what is going on. I do hope that they slowly wake up to all the corruption that is slowly coming out. But will it change anything?
And sometimes I just need to “ shut the fuck up’’

VALENCIARTIST: Can you give me a top 3 of your most important artists (any type of art) and the reason?

FF: Another difficult question, can I really only mention 3? Okay.
The first is a master forger from the Netherlands Henricus Antonius (Han) van Meegeren. And why, because he painted many old masters and sold them to the Germans during the Second World War. And after the war he painted an old master in real time in court because they did not believe him. can be seen in a documentary or on the internet. Very interesting.

The second is a master forger from Germany. Wolfgang Beltracchi. And why, because he has made work by many highly regarded artists, who had been described in catalogues but had never been seen. So he came up with those new works painted in those artists’ styles, and I think that’s also genius. Can also be found on the internet in a documentary, and interesting to see.

And the third is of course me, and why? Because I have had a wild and exciting life full of interesting stories, I make art. And have a difficult character, who is full of shit.

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A LITTLE MORE BACKGROUND ON FABIAN FIASCO

Well I’m Rudi aka Rudi Cygne aka Fabian Fiasco. I grew up in the Netherlands, and now I paint, write a little and create different things. I have a difficult but fair character.I have been an entrepreneur and a criminal, and I have experienced the most exceptional situations in my life.Now I live with a German beauty who writes, together in a beautiful picturesque fortified village founded by the Knights Templar, in the south of France.

My website is https://fiasco.gallery/
My E-mail is fiasco.gallery@gmail.com

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I wish to truly thank Fabian Fiasco (Rudi) from the bottom of my heart for this candid and revealing interview. I am sure you will enjoy his website and his paintings, I know I have and I do.

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