Le Journal du Chihuahua: Fra Olivieri, your drawings are very offensive for the people you represent, do you think the public will eventually hate you?
Olivieri di Trentino:
People like my drawings as long as they represent someone else. They
would certainly hate me if they realized I am drawing them, but people do not know how to observe anymore and they are unable to see their characteristic features in my drawings.
Le Journal du Chihuahua: We all like your last drawing, el Cangrejo Gargamelico, who does it represent?
Olivieri di Trentino:
I am coming back from a trip to Canada where people have the weird
habit of wearing ugly clothes and ugly glasses. I was adjusting my
camera to take the picture of a wobbly electrical pole when I saw three
blond girls who were talking together shamelessly, pretending that
blond girls were the most beautiful in the world. One was wearing thick
rim glasses, the second one was dressed like a moose and the third
one was holding her hands like a dog
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waiting for a treat. In Canada,
people may be 30 years old, but they are unable to see that they dress
as if they were 6 years old.
El Cangrejo Gargamelico, 2005
Le Journal du Chihuahua: Canadian glasses are famous all around the world. Why are you saying they are ugly?
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Olivieri di Trentino:
The most important part in a face, the most expressive, is usually the
eyes. When you put a pair of thick rim glasses on them, they look
like announcements of death and stop being the most important part of
the face. Therefore the only feature left to interpret a face is the
mouth and its teeth.
Le Journal du Chihuahua: The glasses are only ugly on the little face on top. It does not look so important in your drawing.
Olivieri di Trentino:
You are absolutely right. The hands are the most important features
here. I wanted to condemn a strange habit that girls have in Canada of
wanting to look skinny by reducing the diameter of their waist.
This is a big mistake that shows that people do not know where to look.
In Canada, most girls are considered very skinny because they have no waist. But most of them have
a bike tire sticking out of their T-shirt. I plainly call them fat. The
only way to tell if a person is skinny or fat is to look at hands.
Skinny fingers belong to skinny people. When you see a skinny blond
with fat fingers, you can be sure she is fat although nobody notices. |