© MIAZBROTHERS
1. When you take out the detail, all you have left is colour and a somewhat familiar shape, which you assume is a portrait of someone. What is the significance of this?
The point is that you have to assume…we are not interested in the portrait itself,its more like a tailor that is using his mannequin to create his creations, we are using the portrait as a shape to represent the whole humankind in general…its a pretext to work from the philosophical point of view in which we are committed from already 25 years.. is a way to express our idea of ourselves as humans, sensible to the environment, to the experiences, continually evolving and adapting. taking out the details the eye cannot consume the picture as it is used to in a daily basis. you re forced to pause and think and create by yourself an image, a resemblance. we think it is the essence that is important to retain. and when you think about the essence of things it can become a mystical-philosophycal pause awakening the sensitive parts of ourselves that are asleep due to the overwhelming visual information we are fed every moment of the day.a pause to doubt about something can be good.
2. The same technique/style is shown over and over again for different portraits. What message are you trying to transmit, and what is its significance in today’s world?
Fundamentally we are interested about the ¨perception¨ and not the ¨representation¨… its in straight relationship with the use of the senses and the self capacity of elaborate the incoming informations that nowadays should be more and more important …its kind an exercise for the inner spirit….a flexible experience of stretching the awareness of what we see and perceive….a stimulation for the consciousness and the limits of our idea of the world and his symbols…
we are trying to force the viewer to interact with the image and to do a sensitive effort by filter it trough the perception and the process of identification to achieve something not fixed and limited but boundless and personal…
today more then ever before, we re able to get all the information we need about everything ,that means that today we can evolve faster. we are able to develope ourselves in infinite ways. we can also be more conscient about ourselves and our choices we have all the means to become a better person. what may be overlooked today are the inner "parts" of ourselves the ones that link us to nature to our origins. to achieve a sort of balance between our mystical nature an the one that have to survive in the material world is the goal. so the paintings are indicating a sort of hidden dimension , the essence of a being that is composed by infinite possibilities, choices, experiences....
3. How did you develop your style? What was its point of origin?
Its an extensive exploring process…both theoretical and practical…we passed trough every medium we where able to experiment with, trying to find which was the most suitable for our nature and philosophical interests….at some point we felt the urgency to do something with painting that after all is the most practiced medium since our adolescence…we conceived the fundamental concept of erasing the lines to gain a flowless mouvement of colours and by just apposing millions of dots apparently dissociates from each other to form something not instantly evident but visible from a furthest distance…
the visual idea came from the necessity to represent the concept that we are a bunch of atomic particles in continuos evolution that never stops…for that reason we couldn’t trace lines and boundaries on the canvas cause that would freeze the image forever erasing the sensation of expansion and evolution…
we wanted to use painting as a challenge, for it is the most ancient and nowadays accesible way to do art ... and spray is just the right medium as the infinite dots that compose the picture are a perfect symbolization and a pretty good way to visualize the numberless particles that phisically we are composed of, the interaction with the external inputs, the hidden chemistry between our concient and subconcient parts , the sensitive, emotional factors that influence our being. so our style was developed accordingly to the philosophycal thoughts of ours.
4. How does this work develop as a brotherhood and a partnership?
we were lucky enough to be raised as equals although there are 3 years between us. and life teached us in the good way and also in the bad way (that is the most effective) that the most precious thing to have is someone that you know like yourself and that you can love and trust with your life…