Oswaldo Guayasamin - Interview with the Ecuadorian artist 1973

tin American, have you painted Latin America? -What is your relationship with other greats of Latin American painting who have faced this issue? - Isn't painting your means of expression? (He answers: No. I make sculptures, I make engravings and now I am finishing an immense monument in the city of Guayaquil, in honor of the sesquicentennial of its independence). General views of the model with the project of the work you are doing in Guayaquil. -How tall is it? -What is behind that irregular shape? -Why the blue and white color in the fountain? Then Oswaldo Guayasamín is seen showing a figure that he made with raft stick and decorated with acrylic material. -Is it true that you make jewelry? (He then exhibits some of the jewels he designed himself) -Do you have your favorite jewels? - Could you illustrate us about this relationship between the pre-Columbian and what you do now? The first part of the interview with the journalist ends by commenting: "Oswaldo, we cannot finish in a single day with this visit to your house, there are so many things to see and so much to hear you say that we are going back another time." The interview with the journalist is resumed commenting: "We promised to return to the house of Oswaldo Guayasamín, in Quito, Ecuador, and we entered this time without his company to show them so many things that are here; naturally his paintings, this, one of the 9 inspired in the damned of the earth, by Franz Fanón, another with unusual kinship, this head taken from El Greco and that Oswaldo Guayasamín has taken to the size we are seeing, but there can be nothing really unusual here; this head is actually made being reborn the old pre-Columbian style The idea stems from these ceramics, from many centuries ago, where the special idea of ​​the perspective, and the volume of those who inhabited America before the discovery and conquest was noted, but with the conquest also arose Wonderful school of Quito.This collection of Christ, belonging to Oswaldo Guayasamín, is a magnificent illustration of what we say, and if something is missing, here they are work s of Caspicara, invaluable as everything Oswaldo Guayasamín has done or gathered. Here in a self portrait. Here the phrase is really the sacred fire, next to this we dialogue now with Oswaldo Guayasamín. "Interview with Oswaldo Guayasamín, in which he is asked: -Who are you really? -Do you have no disciple in art? Anyway but you can teach by this, we believe that our America has taught you? - Oswaldo, to finish, then this is not a museum? - Oswaldo Guayasamín, from Ecuador, from America, what do you tell us to synthesize everything, What do you put so much strength on, so much that many of us don't know how to express, so much in a way of suffering to finish this note? (Roberto Maidana)
Date: 1973
Duration: 12 minutes 56 seconds
Film code: D-01534

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