Art & Life with Tony Vincenti

Today we’d like to introduce you to Tony Vincenti.

Tony, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far.
I’ve gone to Asia a few times, spending a couple years there total. While traveling, I collect motifs, compose, and read. Otherwise, I’ve spent time surviving as a truck driver.

Can you give our readers some background on your art?
I make artwork by collecting motifs as I travel and collaging them into various media, such as paintings, video, and sound.

I supposed I get inspiration from three main sources: travel, meditation, and books. Travel provides perceptual variety, meditation provides mental unity, and books suggest principles to organize and converge variety into unity.

I try to utilize motifs and subjects that I have personally known or touched, rather than a sample from culture or pre-existing media. Then I simply mix them together as a balancing exercise.

It’s been said that art mimics nature’s function, rather than mimics nature’s form. In both art and nature, inner-order can balance the composition of outer-organization. I suppose the only thing I would want someone to take away from my artwork is that they harmonize this principle into their own lives, the principle between inner-order and outer-organization. But do so in a somewhat camouflaged way, so as to avoid naivete and vulnerability.

Given everything that is going on in the world today, do you think the role of artists has changed? How do local, national or international events and issues affect your art?
It’s an interesting issue: Some artwork nostalgically references past eras, some references the current era, and some strive to reference a possible future era. I’m willing to reference any era or no era at all. But mostly I’ve strived to detach from cultural semiotics.

I’ve experimented a little with artwork that responds to culture and current events, but I feel uncomfortable with it. Maybe it’s because event-reference dates the art associates it with a particular time, and designates relevance to an external constellation of events, rather than to the underlying principle of aesthetics itself.

What’s the best way for someone to check out your work and provide support?
Sometimes I’ll post artwork online, or do an occasional show. If anyone wants to be on a mailing list, email me. Or follow on social media.

Contact Info:

• Email: samplac@yahoo.com
• Instagram: soundcloud.com/pullerwithin
• Facebook: facebook.com/pullerwithin
• Other: patreon.com/pullerwithin, vimeo.com/pullerwithin

Image Credit:
Tony Vincenti, Shirley Zoremsangi

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