For the most part, i don’t seek out art. I let it find me. Theres just so much bad work out there, i could spend 6 hours on DeviantArt and only find one photograph or painting that i would want to see on my wall. Massimo Mazzu joined AltPornNow only a day or two after it opened. I checked out his profile, followed his homepage link to his Flickr account and was immediately impressed. Possibly because we seemingly share the same fascination with women’s torsoes, but more likely, he’s just a brilliant fucking artist. When i was growing up, reading the interviews in Rolling Stone, inevitably the interviewer would try to translate the experience of listening to the artist’s work in a literal way. I just never understood that. Its an impossibility, so why try? So you won’t hear me yack about his work, making myself sound pseudo intellectual, instead i encourage you to experience it for yourself in the gallery below and draw your own conclusions.
I was very impressed with Massimo’s candor, which i think is indicative of a good artist. He’s truthful with himself, with us, and in turn his works are truthful as well. A resident of Italy, English is not his first language. Please read carefully as i believe its more interesting without a touch up job performed by yours truly.
Q: Describe your ideal woman.
I haven’t an ideal woman, i like every kind of woman. I think that every kind of woman has her beauty. In fact the women that i draw are “puzzles” made in by part of women that i like. For example i love milky, redhead and northen women but, at the same time, i love the prosperous breast and the sexy forms of our Mediterranean women, the athletic shoulders and the booty of black women, the mysterious almond eyes of asian women, ecc… Women are all wonderful! Every kind of woman expresses her femininity in an absolutely personal way…so i can’t to say that i can’t love a particular kind of woman.
Q: How did you choose paint as your medium?
I draw from a long time, thin from when i was i child. When i gone to school i didn’t follow my teacher’s lessons and i lost my self in my drawns. My approach to the painting was relatively late. After a year to the classical high school i passed at the art institute where my passion for the art cames out and where i learned the technique. But only one year ago i started with the watercolor, technique that i prefere because it’s too immediate.
The immediateness is a fundamental characteristic for my art. When i just have an idea, as soon as i imagine a woman, a position that entangled me or i feel inspired, i must to take a pen, not pencil, and start to draw.
It’s a necessity.
Q: Tell us about your first sexual experience, either with yourself or another .. in other words, how did you come to discover your sexuality?
Yes, i vaguely remember my first experience with myself. I was young and I had undergone an operation to a testicle. I was completely shaved and I had reentered to house. It was summer and it was very warm. I remember that when it ended I almost had an indisposition.
Q: What is your daily life like?
i live in a very small town. After i was graduate (i’m a designer) my life isn’t full as you can to imagine. I wake up and i go to my part time job (sometimes i help mi father and my brother, they are transporters) or i start immediately to draw. Usually I wake up late in the morning… in the afternoon, if i’m not travelling with my band, at 15,30 o’clock i go to the bar for the coffee time with my friends. It’s a fixed appointment. We talk about politic, sex, universal problems, girls, poverty, women, music, asses, ecc… After the coffee time i go home and i start to draw or i play with my band. In the evening i can go out with my friends or my girlfriend, i can drink a beer to the pub or i go to a party or to a concert in the near towns. You can see that i haven’t an enthusiastically life. My life, as the life of the all the italians, is very very slow. Our evening starts at 23,00 p.m. That’s my winter daily routine.
Q: How much of your life is dedicated to your art?
I dedicate all my life to my art. i’m an artist, but i’m a musician too: i play the bass in a band so all my day is devoted to the art. A lot of times i give to draw and a lot of to play with my band. I can’t imagine my life different to this. The art allows me to express my self and to exist. To create makes me feel alive, to exite someone with my art or my music is an indescribable feeling that i can’t to explain. I guess that to create makes divine the man.
Q:Do your paintings reflect your inner desires unmet, or are they illustrations of desires that have been already met?
Both. A lot of the women that i draw are desires, memoirs, pieces extrapolated by my imagination that i elaborate on the paper. Infact rarely i use true models (i’m not very professional, it comes me desire to attack her, to grab her, to bite her). I generally draw to my imagination and my mental baggage. Very often however i also draw some particular desires, desires stimulated even by a beautiful woman met for the street, in the supermarket, stimulated by a porno movie, a model on the magazine or a simple excitement. Often while i sketch happens me to excite me thinking about what i’m creating or, often, i start drawing really because i’m excited. Usually i draw fat women but it doesn’t reflect one real desire of mine. I simply exaggerate some anatomic detail, as if these women are exploding of sensuality. I don’t draw the faces of my figures, instead, because they don’t interest me. It’s like when i make sex with an unknown girl when i’m drunk. The women that i draw are like mirrors where everybody can reflect himself.
Q: Have any particular movies changed your life?
I don’t know if there is a particular movies that changed my life. I can say that i’m a son of ‘80/’90 and of that whole series of horror and splatter movies of that years like Nightmare, Cabal, Hellriser, ecc.. (i love these films!). But i really love Tim Burton’s movies like Batman or Beetlejuyce and Coppola’s Dracula. I guess that this whole dark, blood, splatter, oniric and some surreal atmosphere has strongly influenced my imaginary and all my works. Bur ther’a a case that i was inspired by a movie: Lars Von Trier’s Medea.
Q: Where can we see more of your work?
You can see my works on Flickr end on MySpace besides my works will be to the dirty show of detroit in march.
Q: Where can we purchase your work?
You can purchase my works on the website of the gallery www.9visionsart.com or mailing me to massimo_mazzu@hotmail.it
Q: Whats the best part about relationships with the opposite sex? Whats the worst?
The best part of relationships with a woman is surely the hunting, the part when you study the prey, the phase in which you beginning to know her, when you can’t wait to see her, when you would to release everything, your friends, a game to poker or to the PlayStation for to race to her, when you only would to be to bed with her. I’m a man who devote to a woman completely, obviously only if i fallen in love with her. The worst is surely the forced cohabitation, the phase in which you know that there isn’t passion but you are so tied for interrupting the relationship. You know? It’s an ugly situation.
Q: What album gets you in the mood?
As I said before I am a musician, so I continually live of music. I use the music as soundtrack for anything but also as real study, an updating on what changes in the world. I listen to all kind of music, from the most extreme hardcore of the Converge to the Beatles, from the punk funk of the Daft Punk to the Indie rock of the Bloc Party, from Interpol to Tool, from Primus to Mastodon, Air, Kyuss, The Kinks…. Now I’m listening a lot of music of the new English scene, that more funks and electronics. I don’t like too much to look back: i guess that it needs to know every kind of music, to “study” the music of the past but above to look at what happens around to in the worls scene, to look at how the music changes and it evolves, without however to believe that nobody never invents something. The music, as the fashion and the art, is a continuous to take back old things and to evolve they. But that’s the right way for me. So, to the end I say that two albums relased in 2008 get me in the mood: they’re Friendly Fire, homonym album of Friendly Fire and Antidotes of Foalse. They make me go crazy.
Q: Any perversions, fetishes to speak of?
Mha…perversions…. I think that in the sex everything is permissible if the two parts agree. I define few things of the perversions. Obviously I give me some limits but I have the tendency to remove all that preconceived from my mind that could limit me and to block me some experience. I think that I would love making sex with a nun, still wearing the dress, to make sex in the middle of all that crucifixes, all those candles, with the odor of the incense. I believe that it’s a perversion of everybody. Then, for us Italian, still surrounded by Catholics bigots, it has a particular value. Am i a bad boy?
Q: Tell us about your favorite spot on earth.
The answer has been suggested me by you kelly. (editor’s note: this was the only question Massimo had a little trouble understanding what i meant, so i gave him some examples of answers, one of which he used himself) Between the legs of a woman, but not of any woman: between the legs of the woman that I love. I have thought a lot about this question but it is so, I love always making love, always, in very moment, in every place, in the changing room of the shops, to the sea, in the kitchen… I interrupt the lunch to make love, I wake up in the middle of the night, I leave my friends in the middle of the evening, I leave the job, etc… it hasn’t happened me to interrupt a concert to make love yet, but I can’t exclude it.
Q: Tell us about your strangest date with a woman.
First of all i have to specify a thing: I am not really the appointment type. I had not many dates with girls in my life. More often it happens to me to know by chance the girls, to a party or to a concert and then even to begin a relationship. My strangest experience with a woman has been to a party, a strange party, a strange birthday party, my birthday’s party.It was a masked party, I was “masked” by woman, i was on heels, with a sexy suit, with make up and drunk. I was continually molested by women and men…. I had to be very sexy. At the end of the party, it was deep night, all the people was sleeping in the rooms on bed an on the floor among empty bottles. I was on a couch where other people were sleeping, still dressed by woman, with near a girl that didn’t absolutely speak my language, with which I didn’t absolutely can to communicate. The rest is useless to tell.
I can say that during my performance a pair of unknown people before woke up bothered by the “noises” and they sent us away. I can’t blame they… I guess that two women, one with the beard, that make sex in the middle of of a room full of sleeping people it’s not a good show…I would also have become angry. Happy birthday Massimo!
I really like to read. I like biographies the most. My favorite biography (So Cliche) is “How to Make Love Like a Porn Star.” I really love Harry Potter Books. I also love going to the beach. Although I have yet to be in the ocean (ever… yes you heard me right)… Maybe I’ll do that this week?
