master muralist, Armando de Magdalena but understandable and thoughtful:
Our brigade was created as part of the planned activities and Paratori 30 anniversary commemoration of the 1976 coup in Argentina. Three Santiago, a Californian and I organized and ran in the week of February 2006, a dozen murals in different parts of the City of Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires. Partici couple or n us dozens of young men (most militant of the communist youth) and once returned, "the monkey" and his companions to Chile to continue painting until today almost without interruption. That campaign ended on March 24 itself with a mural in a l Av enid May a few blocks from the historic plaza.
What is really significant, what surprised us to everyone years, was the impact that that had few dozen murals in our lives but especially in a sector of Argentina's youth. To give just one example walking along the Avenida de Mayo in the last anniversary of the coup, watched the columns of the political and social organizations march towards the square, when I pass a header with a great parade that had both ends of the typical designs of our brigade. How do got the camera to take a picture, one that was holding it by guessing the move greeted me. I'm sure he recognized me, they were young in the province of Santiago del Estero, whom I did not know. Clear on one occasion did a mural in the capital of the province p ro defend the rights of Indigenous Peoples (I think this mural still exists opposite the bank of the province) and has probably been the mural real culprit. The real thing is that you designs are no longer ours, and ceased to be a time of "mono" Gonzalez. These reasons are of both users within the meaning and the context they were created (u genuinely san), is that as an expression ideographic a feeling and desire for freedom that seeks to materialize.
I bring this anecdote that has not been the exception but the rule. Beyond the activity of our brigade, which was actually a school to this brigade concept art , fu eron emerged over these short years endless murals and muralists youth groups that used this concept and the aesthetic to propagandize their struggles making them visible in a beautiful and original. The images themselves were the best school, whether that of the hundreds ural d em scattered across the vast geography of my country, either of the photos collected by the press, Internet increases, passed from hand to hand as sketch of rebellion and action ona ria revolution in art as in life. This gives me great pride and great satisfaction. Beyond all, if I had to do (in an attempt now) a balan ce , I would say that first and foremost: the satisfaction and pride of being a faith trigger such an interesting phenomenon that I hope someone somewhere commensurate day deal.
Today the circumstances of life have made me to share my days between Asturias and my country. While still connected to all the projects that forge a lifetime and I tie the great American people, it is also true that distance makes some things become complicated. I must say a man self-criticism was so prolific in recent years I could never build a group (small whatever) find a person, as the monkey found in me someone who could capture the deeper message behind the art the actual content of one's own intentionality. To put it another way to understand the mural as a company militant but also respect its complexity, its laws, its possibilities ... all that you need to know to sacrifice in pursuit of the involvement of other ... the convicted person, the alien, the very subject of the radical changes that our co nti component and humanity itself need. The mural (art) as a vehicle for individual and social liberation.
In this regard I must thank the monkey (how lucky I was to talk with him as long and hard) and the brigade itself, since I could experience what they always thought ... see the faces of these kids, seeing the joy of the militants, the people, the marginalized ... Brush them with creating their own hands ... in his own voice telling your own story ... That is more than "contextual l Arts", a fashion but in the end, among so many fashions that are intended nihilists. Surely I will continue painting murals circumstantially, but not as BJC ... the brigade must
furniture ra so that the good and bad of that experience can be capitalized on by those who come after. Today in Argentina that art expands into a sphere and a wall so that i Argentine stas always thought not ... is also essential that
that fail the most important ... in instilling a concept and above all a attitude to art and to the reality .. . the murals I did with Alejandro Urra anniversary in Buenos Aires are the last ones for me has effected do this brigade. Continue painting now that she was born and hopefully be as fruitful as all this experience. "Song has been brave, always new song," were beyond rusty paint brushes in a bag in my room Bu I in Aires ... rest that they deserve and when I will paint with new brushes.
M agdalena
Candamo Santoseso, Asturias
ab ril 13, 2011,
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