Interview with Rosto
g - zin,
24. februar 2016
― Rosto is a Dutch graphic artist and filmmaker internationally well-known for his music videos, TV work and independent short films. He is founder and owner of a production company Studio Rosto A.D. based in Amsterdam. His best known project is Mind My Gap – a mixed media project that began as an online graphic novel and was expanded with graphic design, music and films: (The Rise and Fall of the Legendary) Anglobilly Feverson and Jona/Tomberry which were screened at numerous international festivals and won prestigious awards (including Grand Prix Canal+ at the film festival of Cannes 2005). He presented his work at Animateka as leading graphic design of the festival, followed by exhibition So far, so evil at Moderna Gallery and exhibition of drawings from ambitious project The Monster of Nix (2011). www.mindmygap.com g-zine: Rosto, who are you? Rosto: That’s what I’m trying to find out every day. g-zine: But in general, how would you describe yourself? You are an artist working in different media: graphic novels, different forms of animation and you are also a film director. Rosto: Well that’s hard to answer. Throughout my life, the reality has been asking me this: who are you, what are you and what do you want to be when you grow up, and I still haven’t figured this out. I decided that I am interested in many things, most of all expressing myself. But not necessarily limited by any discipline, genre or media. So I decided to not choose, but to use everything to express myself as an artist, whether that’s art in the fine art meaning of the word or in broader definition. I don’t know and I don’t really care. I am an architect of my own reality and I refuse to choose, my life is too short. g-zine: You draw a lot of imaginary for your work from fairy tales or children myths. Did you imagine as a child you would do something like this? Rosto: I started to think of being an artist at a very early age because I was that boy in class who could draw so well. Every class in