Beginnings in Painting- the 50´s-
According to what my nurse told, at the age of two years, I already painted the white lime walls of the office of my father in the city council of Cadaqués, with coals from the home’s fireplace. At the age of six I remember to have painted again as to the age of eleven and twenty, but I did not begin to do it professionally untill the year 1984, July 18 at eleven o'clock in the morning, in the Bar Marítim of Cadaqués.
Since then I have done about 100.000 drawings, among encumbered, hundreds of oils and acrylic, watercolours and drawings with marker, pencil of colours, sanguinas, charcoal, ballpoint pens, pencil, coal, paintbrushes of ink, plumilla, feather, Lipstick, Eye pencil, silver ink markers, gold, and graphite.
I have done 4 or 5 expositions, I have painted in cadaqués, figueras, albanya, Salt, bcn, espulgues, milan, Munich, Paris, Madrid, Seville, Ceuta, Jerez of the border, San Sebastián, Marseilles, Washington and New Cork, among others places.
I have a drawing in a time record, 1 minute and two hundredths of a second, I have not studied fine arts, on the other hand I did go to the faculty of Barcelona to the Sorbonne of Paris and to the catholic university of nyl and to the faculty of fine arts of Seville, to paint the students.
I have painted Jeannette Jackson in the Champ Elisseés of Paris, she did not keep it.
I have painted Patrick Kluivert in Grácia, Bcn, He did keep it.
I was a friend in Cadaqués, of the il-fated: Herman Brod. Also in Cadaqués, in the 60's I was friend of Joan Ponç, Henry François King, Marcel Duchamp and I knew Salvador Dalí and Miró in Barcelona- My father told me that to paint, I needed a cloth and I now 52 years old I say, To paint fire is needed. Never I have received a prize or Subsidy, I have passed hunger, I have been beaten and I have visited some Police Stations because of the painting.
Painting, is to be critic with the society (sociedad) and above all the “Filth” (Suciedad) -
“I curse the poetry from whom it does not take party, party until staining itself” Paco Ibáñez.
“When I working among the crap the normal thing is to smell bad” Anonymous.
“Your you will be known and will succeed, when you'll be dead," the majority of my Friends.
My painting, recalls various painters, but has an own style and I have created school, but as all the genius I have bitter critics. And others on the other hand they call me genius and master. I have done pictures for the blind, with hard materials that can be felt and touched , I do not believe that many can say the same thing.
I have painted naked men and naked women, I have painted the belly of a friend, as well as the light of the eyes of a beautiful blonde, I have painted the most beautiful pair of breasts, I have painted the most expensive Buddha , of a puff I have created a dancer, I have painted, in Marseille, after various intents I painted a a bald Chinese exactly as he was. But always I find the Jerk in my road, people that do not know to walk and want to give me advise on how to walk.
Along my life as the painter, I have always met rare people, that did not act well, they did of their experiences faith dogmas toward the others, this people pass by, do not remain, what really matters, is what remains, is him or that, that does not avoid to help you and endeavours in pleasing you-this is an amig@. In the painting world the good friend are scarce, the acquaintances swarm as mosquitoes, to see if they can suck you a little your blood , they suck and they go, that are the acquaintances. I am "bipolar" and as such I see myself more often than I would desire obliged to do things against my will because a Judge incapacitated me, I cannot vote I cannot have a Bank Account and I have restricted the travelling, I cannot choose the food that like, so I am very fat, also due to the lack of teeth and to the medication, my sexual life is null and when By coincidence I know someone with whom i would like to go out, I see myself obliged to say NOT! At night I cannot leave, i live in a residential mental centre, I believe that I am something like in the movie “In the name of the father”.
I already know that this is not exactly curriculum but my painting, it’s bound to my self and if I am prisoner, in my pictures only reflect pain, distress and anxiety as the shout of Mums-
It’s the 1st time that my works will be seen in Internet, cheap, because they have said that expensive they would not sell, it is a pity because personally I like to value my work as it’s deserved, but never cheap, although I am very fond of the said "Good, Pretty, Cheap "-
This afternoon my sister told me prepare a curriculum and then have it translated by my nephew, as this is a "family question" and because it's the first time that i'll work through Internet, I do not have anything clear in what the results will be, one thing I do have Clear is that if my curriculum by sincere, impresses some American, i already have a lot won.
“My four-year-old girl, also could do these drawings”. that is a complement I hear it from ignorant people. Or “This drawing I could also do it myself”- that is what many people thinks of Tàpies or Miró. Two Masters. I left Cadaques because of things like that, I am an abstract painter, of musical, sure, and firm stroke.
I love Toulouse-Lautrec, he was a genius that he's generation did not deserve , as so much and so many, and now the bitterness is for me.
There was a time, in Cadaqués that had for breakfast substitute of caviar and a Guiness and then in the Bar Melitón, began to paint, I had to leave what I loved the most to be able to paint in another place that people would not behave as in Cadaqués . If you didnt know, there was a time that Dalí was not appreciated in Cadaqués and thus complies the said: “Nobody is a prophet in its land” and another “Genius and figure to the burial” . I am Catalonian from the four sides of grandfather and great-grandfathers and parents and something tells me under my black Barretina (catalan headdress) that there is no evil that lasts a hundred years and at last something is changing arround me.
It happened a very curious case with an acrylic picture, one of the owners of the Bar Zurich of BCN ordered a picture of the Zurich, but he did not end up liking it, so I made another one, at the moment of the payment "500€ " he told me: as the first one I did not liked, I'll keep both by the price of one”. I did need the 500€ and I didn't say anything, but later on I went to see him and I asked for the two pictures, because had to show them, and he answered “If you want to you can sell them or do what ever you like with them”. He was not happy with the pictures, so I gave them away. Me was not happy either with his negative, in, so I opted to get rid of those ”damned” pictures by the ignorance and the injustice.
Another curious case that happened to me was with a very intelligent individual, but a little short minded: I did a drawing on paper, and in front of he tore it, so instead of complaining, I did another drawing, but this time in a cardboard of hard fabric, but even so he broke it, so I approached the beach. And I took a stone nd I painted it and I gave it to him. I do not know if he understood something, but did something that still now makes me think, he took the stone , I would say almost lovingly, with care, and placed it in the beach.
Another very curious case, happened with the “El Corte Inglés” of Bcn, I had to paint the eight faces that has an umbrella with a silver and gold marker, with permanent ink, I had to do 8 different drawings in each umbrella and besides I signed each drawing, they gave me the wretched quantity of 3€ by umbrella, so each time that went to the Corte Inglés I painted 8 umbrella for 24€, that is to say 64 drawings for 24€, so each drawing left I did was for 0,26 cents of €, you cannot buy cheaper and at the same time exploit more a worker.
I am Always tired of the Exploiters, but in the painting world does not exist the famous said: “Just Commerce” the great majority of the painters are in the hands of mafias, and the law, not justice, makes them stronger. Nobody has ever told me that I can denounce those case and if did it they would take me for a lunatic “Not for a Bipolar”.
The last time I spoke to a painter a painter, he told me that he had a gallery of art and that the gallery kept 70% of the value of the picture.
I have always been told that the price of the picture is fixed by the artist, to me only happened once that they paid the fair amount for one: I was painting a white pasteboard, in the Bar Marítim of Cadaques, a figure of an abstract Buddha that took 10 or 20 seconds in doing, then someone passed and asked me: ”How much does thids Drawing cost?” I answered: “Twenty thousand pesetas” and the poor man, paid them to me, we did become friend, but we did no more business, because the drawing became an abstract form in the shape of a dancer, because a drop of silver ink fell over a great notebook, and the first thing that I did was to puff very strongly thinking that he it was a bit of ash, as I am a smoker and always I do taht, since that Divine Puff the result was very pretty, not waited nor expected, by pure accident I would say.
Therefore since then I did stains and still I do already for over 20 years, and at times I puff so strongly, and with so much vehemence, that I remain without breath and without being able to work. The same thing happens, when I paint with a pencil of 4 colours, with a thick lead, that so that the colours are mix well and nicely. One must press a lot the pencil on the paper, as a result of that I cannot paint, during a good while, because my hand remains hurt.
Between two puffs, the tight hand and the slavery I no longer want to paint, “ neither Alive neither Dead”.
Thanks
KIM