How did it all start? What attracted you to the visual arts?
When I was a teenager, I received a big influence from many books and catalogues full of fascinating images, and cryptic texts. That’s how I got to know Magritte and Ernst, and then came Duchamp and Jackson Pollock, Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman… But I didn’t think of being an artist myself… although I secretly desired it. My idea was to be an industrial designer. But then I got bored… Meanwhile it happen that I met a number of Italian artists of my age, all together, in one shot… that was 1999, in Milan. It was a very exciting time. I felt like in the fairy tale the Ugly Duckling, where the ugly one finds out that he wasn’t that bad.