PABLO RUBIO INTERVIEW
"This interview
was via telephone in Spanish"
Why
do you do sculptures and not drawings or paintings?
Drawing is fundamental, really
its part of the entire plastic.
To be a good painter, you need
to draw. To be a sculptor you need to draw.
Drawing is not a way of expression,
but a need for all artists.
The main fundamentals, the base
of an artist is the drawing.
Drawing is at the head of everything.
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What
was the special moment in your career?
I would say it was when I did
my first exposition in the
"Ateneo Puertorriqueno-
San Juan, P.R." in the year of 1966.
I worked in many collective expositions
before that,
but this was my first individual
one.
I worked big formats, the new
expression of what
I call figurative-abstract.
Sculptures as: Attacking the
invader, Mercy, The Dead,
where pieces of art that filled
me during that time. This was my first exposition.
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Your
favorite material Is...?
All of them. How ever I express
myself frequently stainless steel,
in all it's stages it talks about
that important historical moment.
I think that if Michaelangelo
where alive, he would be doing the same as myself.
He would be cutting with laser
and working with stainless steel.
"We
are the result of the historic moment we live in."
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How
did you start your career as a sculptor?
I was going to be a painter,
all my life I have painted.
At the age of fourteen, while
I was traveling with my dad,
I saw a huge amount of red clay
on a mountain and my father
allowed me to take some home
in a bag.
I started to create 3-D works
and that is when I understood
that there was another world
different to painting.
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Favorite
Themes?
Topics of the time, positive,
nothing negative.
If
you couldn't do sculptures ;
What
other artistic ways would you work?
I would do painting and drawings.
If
in the process the sculptures gets ruined, what do you do?
I keep it . Sculptures are never
ruined I have kept sculptures for five years,
then all of sudden take them
out, and in less then ten minutes
I resolve the problem,
actually I have kept sculptures
longer until I decide what to do. It's like I punish them.
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What
are you giving to the community?
We are seeing the results already.
Monumental Abstract Sculptures
are new in Puerto Rico.
It's been around for thirty years.
I was the one who began this
Modern sculptoric explosion.
I have opened up the way for
young Abstract Sculptors .
We have more the one hundred
monumental sculptures.
The knowledge of the enterprise
and people accepting public sculptures.
We have the assurance and talent
that we have shared and that
we can compete with others sculptors
from any part of the world.
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If
you could do or remake a piece of art, would you?
No, I have never repented of
any public piece of art.
I see sculptures of mine that
are thirty years old,and I still like them.
"Each
on in it's space."
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Obstacles
and limitations you found in your art road?
Ignorance is the biggest limitation
in Art.
People that have everything new,
but art does not evolution,
they want all new models ,but
do not want modern sculptures.
They want everything realistic
that they can understand.
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What
is your process of making a sculpture?
I do the process at night. I
like the peacefulness of the night. There is not a topic, there
is a space, I need to invade that space.
It needs to harmonize with what
is there and the viability of the project. If it's possible or
not, materials, money, if the design is doable or not,
are all things to take into consideration.
I have canceled pieces of art because I do not have the money.
They have wanted to eliminate
something of my piece, but I never let them. I prefer to not do
it.
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What
is sculpture for you?
"Time,space,light
and sincerity"
Sincerity is the most important because you can
fool other people,
but on the long run who you can fool is yourself
and everything is discovered.
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Good luck, I have enjoyed answering your questions.
You have a wonderful Teacher in Jesus Marin,
I know because he was my student.
Good luck in your project!
Pablo Rubio, Sculptor
Monday, February 26, 2001
Rio Grande, PR (Puerto Rico)
My contact in USA is Jesus Marin
marinj@ocps.k12.fl.us
Pablo's Gallery