1. What are your New Year’s resolutions?

My resolution for Italy is to send Berlusconi on Mars with a rocket.

2. What bores you the most?

Waiting for my wife outside and inside the women’s dress shops.

3. Do you like your place or would you like to live somewhere else?

Yes I like it much but I’m lucky because I live in Venice but sometimes I need to go out of Italy in order to breathe some “fresh air” and to see a “healthier world” because the politics situation in Italy is disgusting for me.

Rooftops. View from Matteo´s window

4. What are you able to do that Superman can’t do?

Handle a kryptonite gem

5. If you were sleep walking one night, where would you probably wake up the next day?

Under the benches of the train station or under one of the many venetian bridges.

6. What would you wear to be kicked out from a black tie cocktail party?

I think It’s easy, I can go dressed as usual and I’m sure I will automatically be kicked out.

7. Tell me the biggest prank you did on a friend.

I don’t remember, I don’t like to do pranks to a friend because I’ve a deep respect for friendship.

Matteo (right) at Trattoria Antiche Carampane, the best fish restaurant in Venice

The chaotic drawing table, as Matteo describes it

8. How to ruin your vacation?

Force me to participate at a organized vacation. I love to improvise my vacations.

9. If I gave you a giraffe, where would you hide it?

I would hide it in a cargo ship, destination: Africa.

10. What do you do when you see the glass half empty?

I would try to fill it with a good wine.

Credits to Nicoleta Ionescu for talking with Matteo Bertelli