LR: I understand. Are you interested in being an artist?

MM: Of course I'am. But as the sayng goes “you can't get a frog out of a marsh. Our system is a marsh. If you don't jump out quickly, you find yourself in the quicksand, the more you move, the more you sink.

LR What role should the artist play today?

MM: First of all he should realize fine works and defend the territory, the cultural territory.

LR: As it is usually understood, is a work realized when someone calls you and invites you?

MM: One makes the hole and someone else the doughnut? Can you make art in a hideaway?

Does a work of art have a life of its own? Does it make sense to make art only for your friends?

The genesis of a work is a more-or-less articulate path interrupted and often completed by external agents. It starts with a little miracle, a point of view changes, something shifts, like a little surprise that often emerges from a distraction or from the pockets of chaos that feed my study.

Those who invite me, ask me to fill a blank space, a work is a question and a question create further blank space, a hidden potential which is in the premise and dangerously shades away in its conclusion.

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