"You’ve said painting is an erotic impulse: can it be similar to a sexual intercourse?
The procedures that take place to realize an authentic modern pictorial work are very, very complex and in any case never translatable in a project; at the beginning they commit all the powers of their existence in a confused way: but every human act is by nature, always, an act that evokes Eros and is, always, totalizing, but the habitual consciousness has no awareness of it, is stunned, hypnotized. In the genital relationship, properly considered, bodily sexuality is involved at the extreme limit of its forces in a spasm aimed at overcoming the physical excitation to reach the fulcrum, in a sexual intercourse in which both subjects simultaneously experience as much entirely united as distinct. The whole life of an existence is destined, in an embrace, (consciously or not) to experience an ecstatic event, or to assume a simultaneity of reality that appears conflictual, foreign, different to the usual consciousness, others from its own self, that suffers confused.
Eros is the great mystery of the World, birth and death are always present in Eros. Always evoked by Eros to be transcendent: in every authentically pictorial work, the individual seeks, in the dark, the way to complete the union of his own entire existence - thoughts intuitions, feelings, bodily, psychic reality, intellect… - who violently wishes to take on the life of the other: sexuality calls on Eros to express himself with all the force of his pathos.
Sexual drive is always the expression in our individual life of that unimaginable event that we call falling in love; in this is manifested the presence in our existence of another life that arouses, and is aroused, by the desire to take the other, this dark perception of the other self is scary and therefore attractive. Our obsessive desire is to experience omnipotence.
What do you mean by ‘sexuality’?
The sexual drive is, how can I say, the signal that violently warns us about the presence of the other. It is necessary to distinguish the call or physiological- naturalistic sexual drive from the violent and conflictual forces of Eros that anyhow and always I try to combine, to contain and merge in my works.
The images of the world that she defines as metropolitan, communicate nothing of the power of Eros, are an art-made, abstract, degraded and degrading expression of the enigmatic forces and values present to life in natural bodily sexuality: metropolitan images aim to arouse artificial, admirable sexual references, never express anything, just anything of the immeasurable dramatic forces present in the erotic power.
Metropolitan images are the expression of a genital sexuality already castrated, dejected, mortified: there is nothing of Eros: the stimulus they arouse is the product of incorporeal psychic prostheses, spectral, which cannot really mediate any authentic sexual-erotic event: they cause dreamlike itches that indefinitely recreate a paralysis of genital sexuality, anesthetize it to the physiological impotence.
They do not produce a strong real and conscious erotic imagination; they are empty, solitary, lethal fantasies that betray the natural elemental vitality of the instinctual urges of sexuality - genital.
It is precisely the common use of an estranged and alienating sexual fantasy that prevents the authentic, original experience of the power intrinsic to natural sexuality. In this is potentially present the mysterious and violent power of Eros, the immediate experience of which is possible only if you are able to realize a truly creative imagination, that it has the virtue to evoke the mystery of Eros and to lead us to a true intercourse with the Other.
The stereotyped images of sexuality proposed by the metropolitan universe, fashion, pornography,… prevent the desire to have an authentic relationship with the nature of life of another, different existence, with the different, unreachable reality of the other; preclude the possibility of creating a conjugation relationship in which one makes the paradoxical, ineffable experience of one’s own identity that while remaining such assumes the other without getting confused or separating.
In pictorial doing, in his sensorial physics I seek the narrow path through which to experience a real erotic fulfilment."
From a conversation with V. Slepoj, Arte & Eros, Playboy, December 2003 cit., p. 56