We recently connected with Giorgia Manini and have shared our conversation below.

Giorgia, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Has your work ever been misunderstood or mischaracterized?

The truth is that I still feel so small compared to the art in the world. I can’t remember exactly when the strong attraction to art began in my life, but looking back over time it all makes so much sense.
I can say that in reality, I understood only now that art has always been part of me, of my essence actually, not of my life.
All the paths that I have taken up to now have led me in the end to understand that everything has always been connected with the principle, and the principle is that we are a fraction of the universe that is experiencing existence from a perspective that is myself and as such to feel connected to the flow of the universe (which for me is nothing less than the concept of God) becomes fundamental to create, just like God.
Art is what most connects us with our spirituality, in fact, it has always been associated with religions.
With all this, I don’t want to start talking about God and religion but I think that art and God are inevitably connected in my experience, and perhaps it was precisely this that sometimes limited its complete success for me.
This is because inevitably after my studies, which I still consider incomplete (I don’t think I will ever be able to consider it complete due to what I believe life is a continuous succession of lessons) I had to deal with the careerist society in which we live.
Just the other day, talking about art with a friend, I found myself faced with this sad reality.
He stated how nowadays the success and value of a work of art is mainly linked to the ability to sell itself.
I tried in every way to counter this statement by him, since I personally pretty much have a divine vision of art, but then in the end I was forced to agree with him.
Art today has little space for spirituality and to be able to work in this environment we now need additional skills, social climber skills required in almost all current careers in our society. I have always been a person interested in other things too. I can’t give up the concept of freedom that some careers require sacrificing for social climbing.
Unfortunately, working in art is no different, in fact in my eyes it sometimes seems like an environment where these extreme sacrifices are required.
Everyone today, of course, wants to make art but it is extremely difficult to do so without losing oneself along the way in a society in which, among other things, artificial intelligence exists which in half a second can make a more beautiful picture than any world average artist.
With this I absolutely don’t want to say that anyone who works in art nowadays is a social climber or even less so I don’t want to discourage anyone, in fact, I would like to warn them.
When I was little I was often told that being an actress or singer was very difficult and that “in those types of jobs only one in a million can succeed”, but nowadays any artistic job is one of “those jobs in which only one in a million can make it”, therefore it inevitably favors those who have greater economic availability because if you have stable economic support even without being an artist you can live your whole life trying with all the time you think you need to try.
However, we must not fall into the mistake of turning the only thing that can connect us with something divine into a nightmare. In the end, the road to hell is full of good intentions. There is no greater sin than keeping our lives in a hellish state.
When we are living in hell we absolutely cannot stop, otherwise we will remain stuck in hell.
After all, we don’t necessarily have to feel discouraged if we are not part of “that one in a million who managed to have that particular artistic career”, we are the universe that is being experienced from a certain perspective so we should always be proud of that that we are.
Maybe your artistic success is not now, many artists have started painting halfway through their lives, perhaps it is when society is more ready to accept you for who you are but above all when the person is ready to be accepted.
Unfortunately, I still haven’t been able to work in the art world. After paying for the make-up course by working as a bartender in clubs, my approach to working with makeup wasn’t the best.
Although I have always loved cinema, working in this environment is a completely different story, everyone wants to work in cinema and would do anything to work there.
The thing is very similar in fashion in general.
I believed that working in the world of art would have brought me happiness as they always told me that “if you do a job that you like, you will never feel like work in life”, but what I understood on my own is that sometimes the methods in which you express yourself have priority over how you express yourself.
Turning your hobby/passion into a job isn’t necessarily the key to happiness in your life.
However, even if I am not currently working in the world of makeup, I am sure that sooner or later I will find a way to express my art, whether it is work-related or not.
Ultimately my dream is not to work in art but to be happy.

Giorgia, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

This might seem like one of the simplest questions, but it is actually one of the most difficult for me as I still don’t feel ready to identify myself solely as a makeup artist. I feel that I am also much more than this.
Mainly I like creating creatures with makeup that have a story behind them, maybe I also like the part where I play these stories for videos on social media.
It reminds me a little of the games I played as a child where I used to draw a character and then interpret it by acting.
This is why it is so difficult for me to transform it into a working monetary profit since it is truly something intimate, personal and sentimental.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

I know that after having this society attacked as mainly responsible for the fact that art is now mostly about being able to sell themselves, I feel under obligation I must now make proposals for solutions to the problems. I don’t really have the answer to the solution to the problems as I believe that I still have a lot to learn in my life but I think that the main problem of this society is that we tend to venerate social climbers, even if sometimes they are some people who harm for get to where they are but the other people like the position that some people have and therefore take them as a model.
I believe we should change our reference models above all.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

I think the most rewarding aspect of being an artist is exactly what I was talking about before feeling connected to the flow of the universe. Creating connects us with the universe because the universe is practically a stream of consciousness that we can call god, which is why creating something with our hands can connect us with our higher self.
As Michelangelo said, art is what brings us closer to God, in particular sculpture since Michelangelo created the statue from a mass of matter.
A bit like in religions we talk about how God created man, perhaps this was precisely the hidden message?

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