Interior, Villa Maria It started with an abandoned warehouse but Jacinto thought that was too cliché and foresaw that within 6 years everyone would be using warehouses and throwing stuff in them and calling it art. Hey, it's in a warehouse man! It's art and contemporary too! So he decided to buy a villa instead. Actually it was a little shack but he pulled some 'strings' and turned the thing into a completely illegal massive kitsch villa on the side of a virgin mountain. (Virgin before Ciccio and Jacinto moved in). Now all one sees is glaring PINK otherwise known as VILLA MARIA or BIG PINK.
It was here where Jacinto and even Ciccio after getting tired of PC Barbie developed what can be considered the most cutting edge art collection of recent times. Names like Hoffenstein quite simply rang true in this environment. Space became like jelly and tomato paste. Easily moulded that is… like young American girls without a clue wondering the streets of Paris as Ciccio would later say. And other informal abstract matter painters like Smyth Browne. Where the wounds of existential angst hold out for longer and longer periods until what is left are quite simply...Paintings (Yes with a capital P!)
And that was the beginning of the art collection and the Villa Maria…
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