He didn’t know if there was still time.
He ran up, as fast as he could, to climb on top of the book case and see if the key was still safe behind the least favorite of all his books. But alas, the key was gone.
 
Who took it?
When?
How did they know of his secret place?
The box could now be unlocked by someone else.
Someone else?!
 
A cold shiver ran down and up his spine and a million things he hadn’t thought of before suddenly clouded his mind. A chaos of incomprehensible noise and numbing silence blasted like a hurricane through his brain.
 
How could he allow something so precious to slip through his fingers?
He had it. No.
More than that!
Not only was it his but he was the only one who knew of its existence.
Now everything was in question. Suddenly everything was possible.
The box could now be opened by anyone in the whole wide world.
 
If only he would have kept it close by, close to his heart. No. Closer! Under his skin, as part of him.
There it would have been safe. There no one would have ever thought to look for it. Nobody.
 

Sabina Nore

When I first saw his paintings the style looked familiar and his artworks made sense to me. Playful, surrealistic and with a touch of lowbrow – what’s not to like?
 
I hope you enjoy the following interview and the art of El Gato Chimney!
 

The Original Dialogue

Sabina Nore talking to El Gato Chimney

Basics and the Banal

Arrogance and rudeness.
 

An infinity of things, and I always find something new that catches my interest.
Nature definitely gives me a lot of inspiration.
 

I have many, all related to moments of discovery and play.
They all are equally important to me, but probably of no interest to a stranger.
 

I do not have any.
 

I dislike going out to dance.
 

All the hues of purple fascinate me, they create very special effects.
 

A common person from various eras of the past, so I could experience certain events of human history.
 

The First Steps

Suddenly I got caught by a creative fever that I had to second.
I have this need to create, without having to ask myself if I am making art or not.

Not really, I belong to a modest family and they thought that having a “normal” job with a monthly salary was the best way to ensure a future for myself.
I cannot really say that they discouraged me, but my choice of career was never greeted with enthusiasm.
 

I have never attended art school, I am a self-taught artist, so my artistic knowledge has always been dictated by my own tastes from the beginning.
That said, the artist who influenced me the most is Doze Green, as he helped me realize that I want to depict the invisible.
I gather my inspirations not only artists, but also from anthropologists, historians, poets and scientists.
My researches range over a wide variety of subjects, such as alchemy, ancient and modern art, magic, mirabilia, occultism, popular folklore, spiritualism and tribal art.
These studies make me feel particularly fond of the artistic movements of the 800s/900s, but my poetics and my vision belong to the 21st century.
 

Arnold Böcklin’s Island Of The Dead, the third version located in Berlin, is the very essence of my research.
I spent a lot of time in front of this masterpiece.
 

To be myself and to do what I find right, ignoring “advices” from people that cannot even hold a pencil.
 

The Art

Many think that, but for many others they are ambiguous and creepy.
I love the ambivalence of my art, it means that it acts differently on the subconscious of the beholders.
I would not know about the name, sometimes I think about it because I feel that my work is different from what I see around and I wonder where it belongs, but in the end labels are meaningless.
 

Definitely the heart, it is the heart that guides the hand and takes the right choices, even the ones that could seem very risky but that, in the end, prove to be good.
 

Mostly acrylic paints, but I love printmaking and sculpture too.
And I have wanted to work with wood for the longest time…
 

The medium is just a means to realize a concept, so I choose from time to time the right one for my current needs.
 

Of course, due to the experience acquired.
The more I learn, the more I feel the need to revise my beliefs and my inspirations.
Change and evolution are fundamental for an artist.
 

I have to admit that I am always sad to part from my paintings.
There is one piece in particular that I sold because I needed money at the time, but everytime I think about it I regret selling it.
This experience helped me to learn how to part from my works more easily.
I will never part from my sketchbooks, though.
 

I am curating an international group show at Avantgarden Gallery in Milan about mirabilia and I am almost done with a small resin sculpture, that I hope to show soon.
I have nothing else in my schedule at the moment, but it is for the better, as I want to work on new projects.
 

You and Others

No one.

Because there a lot of people that would deserve to be remembered forever for their work.
 

No, I have never done it, but I would not mind trying it, although I have no idea if I would be able to do it, having so much more to learn myself.
 

I would rather not answer for now… I am going to realize my dream group exhibit!
 

Be yourself and be open-minded, do not follow trends, respect everyone and, above all, always try to be humble and self-critical.
 

 

Practically Speaking…

They should contact the galleries I collaborate with, and if they do not find there what they are looking for, then they should talk to me, because I strongly believe that everyone has to find the right painting for them.
 

Loosely inspired by mythology, the Sabinian Furies are an archetypical symbol of power and justice, representing the Fury that either lays dormant, or roams, inside of every woman. The Furies are a trilogy of paintings by Sabina Nore.
 

“Divine Fury” by Sabina Nore

“Fury Rising” by Sabina Nore

“Furyless – The Golden Middle” by Sabina Nore

Artist’s website: www.SabinaNore.com

Here’s where I’m at so far…about a day behind schedule and some interesting details still to be added…stay tuned.

As you can see I am painting in black and white at the moment.  Color and additional details come at a later point.
 
For instance, the main character in front of the mirror will probably be much more “fleshy” and muscular.

In the second picture is one of the scenes that shows something that is happening in the ring, a boy infatuated with it all, and right at the entrance of the circus tent, a rabbit that’s coming out of a top hat. The magic is spilled right at the entrance, so to speak, but that doesn’t make a bit of difference.
 
The child is outside the ring, but it can’t wait to join the circus. What it doesn’t know is that it is already chained to it, and doesn’t have a choice but to eventually become part of the spectacle. The nail is stuck into the ground inside the ring (not visible in the above picture, obviously) and would pull the child in to face the same direction as everyone else who is “playing along”. Direction, and who is facing which, is important in my painting, but that will be more clear when a bigger part of the picture is visible.