w/ Manuel Spolaore
“Hello, my name is Manuel Spolaore, I’m 22, currently working as a bartender at the Ritz Hotel in London. Due to the current world situation, the hospitality industry had to stop most of the activities until further notification from the government. I took the chance to come back home in Italy, and that gave me time to think about a project I have been developing, influenced by my passion and creativity.
The goal is to gather together the present and the past of cocktails, expressed through emotions and experience.
My idea is to connect art and bartending, taking inspiration from a movement born after the WWII, called “Arte Informale”. The artist took inspiration from the passion, suffering and pain of those years.
It is also a very critical historical period, thus my intention was to use the art as a positive distraction, to not constantly focus our mind on problems.
This project begins in collaboration with a friend, Pietro Rizzato, a professional photographer and videomaker, and two famous international brands: Konik’s Tail Vodka and Bobby’s Gin, that sponsor and support the project.
I created 4 cocktails (2 vodka-based and 2 gin-based), inspired by four essential paintings from “arte informale” and two most famous artists of that time: Jackson Pollock and Sandro Boselli.
My guarnishes for the glasses, are spontaneous techniques of expression, these are close to the same used by the artists, such as using edible, natural and organic ingredients.
In addition to the research to producing great looking cocktails, an essential part was the taste; all the drinks are totally different one to another, inspired by the emotions that the paintings have generated on me.
I hope that this project can bring emotions and involve a lots of people, being different from other creators in my own way. My aim is to study and create cocktails, that through taste, visual and emotional feelings can induce consumers to have a complete, satisfying and remarkable experience.”
- Manuel Spolaore
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Each cocktail is Manuel Spolaore's intellectual property.
cell: +44 7470119262
mail: manuelspolaore@gmail.com
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