The mysteries of art told (on social networks) by Sabrine El Mayel

Do you know the secret of the tear of « The fallen angel » by Alexandre Cabanel? Or the one hidden behind « The nightmbuli », the work painted in 1942 by Edward Hopper? And again, what story does Edgar Degas’s « 14 -year -old dancer » be hidden behind? To tell on social networks Mysteries of art that are not found on books school– between anecdotes and videos – is Sabrine El Mayel (@jesuisabrine). Born in 1996 in Caltagirone, Sicily, from Tunisian parents and moved to Rome to attend the Academy of Fine Arts, accompanies those who follow her in « An extraordinary journey among the works that reminds us how much art is an expression of our deeper feelings and passions »tells the Corriere della Sera.

Daughter of a painter, «I was born between brushes and canvases, and the creative vein has always been familiar to me. Then, when I moved to Rome – he continues – what I thought was a hobby became a profession: registered at the university, I realized that all the votes I had of free time I dedicated it to painting, my safe space « , confesses, underlining The importance and power of social networks to communicate art: «I feel lucky to be part of this generation that has the great possibility of bringing his thoughts out of his bedroom, sharing them with others. And I feel lucky because in my case this occasion has also turned into a job possibility ».

What must not be missing in the backpack, even metaphorical, of a passionate of contemporary art? « The curiosity and the ability to question and remove one’s egomanaging to understand, study and analyze even the works that do not attract us », highlights. «Without curiosity we would stop for pure technical aspect. To understand art, however, it is necessary to read the life of the artists, to understand who the Pers0naggi represented are, to investigate the moment of drafting a painting. The painting set in a canvas is a juncture of an eternal life: we cannot completely understand a work without entering and go further». An invitation? « To enter dialogue with the artists it is necessary to learn to stop in front of the paintings and listen to the stories they tell. »

A work and a place to which it is particularly linked? “On the one hand I think about « Beyond the city » of Marc Chagall, Artist capable of representing his beloved in flight and giving space to feeling, for him the key to rise and move away from the evils of the world, flying over and looking at them from afar « , explains El Nayel, clarifying how »The use of blue by the artist to talk about a deep feeling It is a dreamlike transposition of the dream and the ability to give shape to a feeling that we struggle to represent and that excites us. On the other The place is Sicilywhere I grew up and left friends and the seaan element that helps my creativity and helps me to be more introspective and lucid, to understand me, like a sounding board ».

If he were to choose three concepts to describe his relationship with art, he would have no doubts, « because we are not only talking about painting, but about music, literature and everything that elevates us as a spirit. For this I would say visceraland, like the relationship that binds me to it; reflection and mirror, that helps me to observe and understand me; poeticswho teaches me to see what is not visible, « he concludes.