TATO REPETTO Interview – 29- 03-2023
1- How do you define yourself? How do you define your projects?
I define myself as a person curious about images, objects and music that I like to hybridize techniques such as street art, graphic design, graffiti and illustration.
My projects arise from connecting the language I use with the needs of brands, restaurants, hotels, bars to create atmospheres in which people experience different sensations.
2- How did you start working on street art?
From a very young age I was always drawing, in my adolescence I was already painting in oil, with acrylics, some watercolor, experimenting with different techniques. And in 1995 I traveled for the first time to New York where I connected with street art, hip hop and graffiti. And when I returned to Buenos Aires I started to paint in the streets, I painted cockroaches with stencils, with the spray cans I could get at that time, which was not easy at all, so I also used plastic paint and that’s when I started to use the techniques because that’s what I could get at that time in my neighborhood.
3- Where do you find the inspiration to create your projects? Are they modifiers of urban space?
I’m inspired by the street all the time, the neighborhood, the people, everything that happens there, I’ve had a bar in Malasña for ten years and I’m still inspired by emerging artists and the classic.
Although I don’t intervene in the urban space itself, my art is disruptive because it changes the aesthetics of the city’s hospitality industry by bringing the street indoors, creating different atmospheres.
4- What does Street Art represent for you in this constantly changing world?
For me it represents a form of artistic expression that generates a dialogue with the public in an authentic way, without filters, in which any person of different social class can participate, an expression of freedom that generates social, political, cultural questions and that in the end allows creativity and human expression to break with the order and aesthetics of the city.
5- Do you think Street Art should be legal or should it continue to be a form of art pursued by the police? Have you ever had problems?
I think it should be both, have support from the city council so that great artists can give it the oxygen and color that the city needs and at the same time I think it should remain illegal because it breaks with the order since the adrenaline it generates makes the pieces have a power that other museum pieces and others do not have
6- How long does it usually take to prepare each project?
It depends on each project, each client, in my case I work with others and need the approval of interior designers, brands and others. When it’s my personal work it’s usually easier because it’s my language and I work without filters.
Interview conducted by Art Bill – journalist and owner of Street Art In Action.
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“Amor de Barrio (Neighborhood Love)“
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