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Interview

In an interview done by Antonio Moreno for the magazine Vida Nueva, at the end, he asked me, referring to the tones of my last paintings which he considered “more dull”, if hope was over, and I answered him that the use of strong colours wanted to mean a scream against injustice. My answer, maybe, wanted to call the attention to a drama we have not known how to stop and that still remains. But I have not lost hope, the day I lose hope I will be dead, I added.

The interview ends there, but to me, that was the start of my meditation about that question, why more “dull colours” and that “maybe” I did not know how to answer. But I have reached the conclusion that strong colours and, even, the striking colours of my previous stage were a shout challenging injustice in the world, while the colours I use currently are no longer a yell and have become a prayer. That is not a cry, that is a prayer… and I still paint… and shout… and remain silent… and meditate… and pray.



Jorge Rando, Malaga, May 2005