Interview by Jimon

1- Nicolas Romero, one word to describe him?  Fluffly.

2- Where do you reside and work currently?  Most of my time and life is in Buenos Aires, Argentina. But sometimes for long projects I spend three to six months in other cities, I am currently in Rotterdam, taking a ginger beer next to a train station with a long name difficult to pronounce.

3- Did you have any training for art or is it inherent? I never had professional studies. During my adolescence my mother had the excellent idea of getting me into painting classes to process mourning for my father’s death. They were intense years where I felt frustrated for not getting to paint as I wanted. But the important thing was that in the following years this knowledge was very useful for me.

4- Do you remember the first piece of art that you created?  I do not remember my first drawing. But I remember drawing on those printer papers that were very long, they fascinated me because I did not feel there was an end, they seemed eternal and I was able to draw stories with several characters. I usually did that in my father’s office.

5- When did you first start making art and what lead you to start?  I think it all started when I painted graffiti on the street. I was part of a crew that we were always meet during the weekend to paint walls. We talked to each other on the phone or we got together to see graffiti magazines from other countries, to think about colors, themes.

6- Best advice you ever received in regards to your art?  “I give you 20 pesos if you stop painting that face.”

7- What influences you as an artist?  At first, because of my context in murals, I was greatly influenced by the dilemma of the public and the private. How we believe that the outside belongs to us in a collective way and how the private is symbolized in buildings, those spaces that we can’t enter, as a person. Currently I research new technologies and the paradigm that leads politically and society.

8- Do you first make a mock-up?  Yes, always!

9- I have to say, your deform series; amazing. How did this series come about?  That series is a consequence of the research I’m doing with technology. How the image is monopolized to capitalize on an individual experience. It does not matter the contemplation of the work nowadays, only the action of saying that one is there. The new platforms are changing the way we see art. That’s why I wanted to create work that puts art and technology first and see if they go together.. I also like the idea that the work is transformed into something else, as a consequence of something that does not depend on me.

10- How do you describe success as an artist?  Money to buy wine and cheese.

11- You work in different platforms, do you have a favorite?  I love the action of painting, that’s why I’m trying to find new themes to be able to combine them with other platforms.

12- How would you like to be seen as an artist years from now?  As a person that was able to buy wine and cheese for his family.

13- Do you have a place/person/thing that you visit for inspiration?  I like to talk with colleagues about art. It is always good to have long productive conversations and open yourself.

14- If you could have dinner with 3 artists living/dead who would be at your table?  Mimi Lauter, Barry Mcgee and Van Gogh.

15- Name three things you can’t live without in your studio?  Cheese and wine.

16- How would someone find you on social media?  @eversiempre 🙂 you should check the new show I am part of it called “TO HAVE OR TO BE” at @ochiprojectsla.