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EUROART Kubilay Akman.- Your paintings have a modern harmony of figures and colours. Especially your portraits are very successful. Could you tell us a little please what is your story with the "colour element" in painting? Antonio Santin.- In my recent series painting harmony has indeed a crucial presence. I mean, harmony understood as the balance between opposites. According to that, between light and shadow exists a void, and I’m on the end just freezing images of the souls of those who are crossing the same bridge with me, from darkness to light or the other way around.
At the moment, colour is in my work just a consequence of the processes. What is really important to me is how I connect with the psychology of the person that inhabits in the canvas. This is like a miracle, when suddenly you realize somehow you’re not alone in the studio, something has come to life in front of you, and it looks you directly in the eyes… Secondly, I care as a pleasure itself of the process; how light is able to draw and even change the character of somebody, the developing of a structure, and the trace of my tools… The painting wants always to paint alone, and I feel many times like a strict father that pushes the flow to enter into the artificial lake of my brain. KA What were your experiences in arts in the Germany period? AS Berlin is in many senses an exceptional city. The quality of life, the effervescent artistic ambience… It’s my opinion that we are talking about an unavoidable art scene to visit and, when possible, to participate in. It’s amazing for me to see such a big amount of “art seeds” trying to germinate in the same squared meter of earth. One always have the feeling that something big is about to happen KA Who are your favourites in Spanish art? Have you ever been influenced by them? AS Let´s say they will be n heterogeneous group as follows: Velazquez, Ribera, Goya, Benlliure, Sorolla, Pinazo, Mir, Picasso, Anglada-Camarasa, Leiro, Javier Perez, Barceló, Jaume Plensa…Yes, sure I got influenced by them… It was my pleasure! KA What are the possible new tendencies in European art, according to your point of view? Let's make a little futurology. What do you expect from the European artists in the coming decades?
KA Have you ever been to the Istanbul Biennial, as a participating artist or audience? What is your impression about the Biennial? AS Until the date I had not the chance to visit the Biennial. And it’s a pity, because aside that I love Turkey and would go there delighted, I’ve been told about the modern flavour of this event, so I’m really curious. KA You will return to Spain. What are your new projects there? AS Just before leaving Berlin, I have in December a solo show here. From January on, I’ll be living in Barcelona for about half a year. I’ll work there in a temporal atelier in the Contemporary Art Center Piramidon, so I can concentrate on my next exhibitions. But my main activity, at least the first weeks will be enjoying Spanish sun and food while I walk along the beach… You can’t find everything is in Berlin. KA Thank you Antonio and good luck in Barcelona. AS Thank you Kubilay. See you there.
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