An interview by
, curator and curator
Deca Torres
Hello, thank you very much for the opportunity to speak about my work in your magazine. I do have an interesting background for an artist as I did not follow a formal training in visual arts such as BFA or MFA. I went to a business school in France which led me to graduate with an MBA in Management from the Florida Gulf Coast University, and I later enrolled at Christie’ s Education New York where I graduated with a Master in Art History. During these times I was focused on entering the artworld from the institutional side. I have always been creating on my own for as long as I can remember but I did not consider myself good enough to declare myself an artist publicly. I followed night classes of clay sculpture in France, oil painting in Istanbul and welding and anatomy in New York which helped me a lot in terms of apprehension of the forms and also from a technical point of view. Two years ago I was supported by my
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