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Interview

In an interview with Antonio Moreno for the magazine Vida Nueva (New Life), he posed the question Is hope gone? He was referring to the colours used in my last paintings, which he considered more subdued than in earlier works. My answer was that the bright colours I had used were intended as a cry against injustice. They might have been, I thought, a call for attention on a tragedy that we haven’t been able to put an end to. But I haven’t lost hope, the day I lose hope, I’ll be dead, I added. 

The interview ended there, but on my end, that’s when the meditation began. I started wondering about the reasons behind those “subdued” tones and the “might” that I had uttered. Since then I have reached the conclusion that the bright, even loud colours of my earlier works were a shout of defiance against the injustices of the world, whereas now they are no longer a cry but a prayer. This is not a cry, it is a prayer… and I keep on painting… and crying out… and staying silent… and meditating… and praying. 


Jorge Rando, Malaga, May 2005