Voo Store: Would you like to tell us a little bit about your background in art?
Alexandru Gavriel Ganea: My mom is a painter and growing up I was surrounded by art, music and fashion; just a bit more of a loose and alternative lifestyle. But although I was surrounded by art, I wasn't really practicing it myself except for doodling and graffiti. Some of it you can actually still see in my hometown. I studied architecture at first - I thought it would be a beautiful thing to do, still artistic and also three dimensional. But during my studies I found myself way more attracted to landscape architecture and monuments, and I lost interest in my studies eventually. I had a fling with gastronomy for a while and could even envision a future in it, but when my then-girlfriend/now-wife and I came to Berlin for the first time, we were captivated by the creative energy here. We already had the desire to leave Israel and get a taste of something else, so we decided to move to Berlin.
V: How did you get into sculpting?
AG: After moving to Berlin I started an internship with a Berlin-based fashion brand, but I realised that as much as I loved fashion, it was not what I wanted to study. I did know I wanted to study something within the field of art and design. Because of my mom's influence on me and my love for the three-dimensional, I decided to try and enroll to sculpture studies.