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I have painted still life off and on throughout my career but I really started concentrating on it about fifteen years ago… I became much more conscious of the formal values that a still life can actually give freedom for – so that I began to look at still life from this point of view, not simply depicting a few apples or oranges or a couple of jugs and so forth, as a kind of theme – but simply the relationship of the shape of a jug to the shape of a compote or the shape of a pear or the colour of a few objects on a white tablecloth against something in the background. You can actually use the shapes within a still life just as you would in any abstract because they don’t necessarily have to tell any story – apart from their own existence. From that point of view I think it’s a very valuable part of any contemporary artist’s work, if he or she is a figurative painter. – Alberto Morrocco, 1997
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