How many months you need to do one of your paintings?
AS: I do not know. Depends on the conceptualization of the frame. As I do, how will I build it, who will be the woman.
But question is people like it?
AS: No, only if it is an order. The background elements have to speak up, have a speech, an interaction with the figure ends up being which explains the background. It is its great exponent.
For Pedra Sina residence what you sought to explore?
AS: Well, what in Venezuela is called magic art, certain childishness. It is an art form more harmless , less affected , has a serious speech , but not heavy .
What is the serious side ?
AS: It can be the sad life of the clown , people who are dedicated to entertainment . It is also a sad job , who lives from making faces. It's kind of rudeness from reality .
To paint you need a muses ?
AS: Yes , but it is by chance. In this case it was so, it is a Portuguese woman, is a very attractive one.
But your other work also has a woman who draws much attention .
AS: But that is another concept of urban realism . It's different . I took the urbanity as the proper aspect of art that looks like the Dadaists that took in the ordinary , put it upside down and it was art . This movement appears with Marcel Duchamp , after the Second World War . The art wanted to change into something more conceptual and they did it , took things and put them in another context as if they were art and urban realism comes from there , is the point of view of the twentieth century . It's kind of everything is plastic, disposable, that one day is used and the other is discarded .
The urbanism comes from that , the city .
AS: Yes and present life . We see these things as something more romantic, urban realism also show that anecdotal reality and make our lives a little romantic and end up living of it. But, with a greater realism and idealization of beauty as such. And also something povera art (poor art) , a movement of the twentieth century , which used scrap materials for art , rotten wood , old newspapers , rags , were the scenario stinks , but it is an art and sweetened and my what sells is the mistake, is not a craft , but it's like magic art , harmless and that also makes you confront with yourself . The work always affects humans and there may be a negative emotion , but I think they are not many .
The light of the framework has to do with personality.
AS: It is natural light . I choose always to have a single focus , a direction and there is a strong dark , this reality in my case is critical .
Costs you to sell your work ?
AS: I cannot sell them , people it see it as a girlfriend I had and this is something impersonal , which is what they say . It is very difficult to sell the paintings , because they think they are too big , or too dark and impersonal . I presented some work in the International Biennial of Madeira , in the House of Light , but no more than that.
And do not sell overseas ?
AS: They see it as something related to me . It is not a landscape . The magic art is good , because it sells well in Venezuela . Is the circus world , almost surreal , but I do not follow this movement , in Pedra Sina I did , because I was there for only two weeks .
How do you define yourself as an artist ?
AS: I want to stay true to my proposal and my reality is always to show the beauty, the truth.
