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Marcos González
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An Interview

Who are you?

A recipient and, occasionally, a transmitter of the sensitivity “dimension”.

Why do you paint?

As far as I am concerned, painting , creation, is a way to channel and to show that sensitivity. And, besides, it makes me happy.

When did you discover that you had art inside yourself?

When I realized, as a child, that anything may be different, and sometimes better, if you put some creativity into it.

What do you feel when you stand in front of a canvas?

I start my perception radar to feel the possible path or paths, which are already there implicitly. I look for the painting which is already there and the way to materialize it.

How did the idea arise to use iron and its oxidation which are a feature of your paintings?

The balcony railing in my parents’ home was of wrought iron. It stopped me from falling into the void. It was strong but at the same time it could be weak because of corrosion. And it had special features, it could be cold, or hot to the point of burning, it had taste and colour. Besides, iron created spaces. It had, and it has, an absolute charm.

In your C.V. there are blank years. Why is that so?

As far as I am concerned, there is an active and a passive creation. I never stop creating.

How do you explain your liking for bullfighting? Your way of seeing and interpreting bullfighting has been a complete novelty in the art. You even won the 1st prize of painting El Toro Bravo, of Salamana.

My father’s family is from a land of wild bulls. My father was a fan of bullfighting. He spoke about bulls with some of his friends, and in my childhood I used to glance at bullfighting magazines, and heard how they defended or criticised some bullfighters of the time. The photographs, the pictures, the aesthetics of bullfighting aroused in me a vision that later I materialized in the series “Tauromías. Bulls as I see them.”