interviews: arnal

 

To speak with Arnal, it represents for my a pleasure. I feel that he makes

me vibrate the feelings, he full me with ideas and thoughts, always that optic

new and different, a crushing logic an exceptional simplicity. If  he had to

define him I could say that he's a sculptor, painter, ceramist or

philosopher..... I could say many things  and all would fit. I don't like define

anybody, but before him I am certainly in front of a person in the more

wide sense of the word, and this definition that  all him includes, it's

right. Arnal was born in Palamós in the 1946, he is  technician/real estate

that allows me a security, with those  family responsibilities, he remarks.

Versatile person (craftsmaster) fine arts drawing, painting, design,

sculpture, ceramic,  burdened, it photographs, etc. with artistic works

in GIRONA, BCN, MANISES,  FAENZA, GENEVE, FRANKFURT,

PARIS, OHIO, NY, TOKYO, LONDON, OSLO AND MILAN.

And in any simple village, it doesn't matter the city? The vital thing is the

human relationship!. Lover of the  nature he show us his ecological

container, What is and Why? a humble contribution intent, a call to

the responsibility of the makers, so that they investigate a new

container type, that it destroys himself for climatologically action in a 

prudential time. This way the non educated consumer that leaves

everything where he likes, he won't make feel collective shame, for the

people that goes after him. The nature will thank it to us, and the 

generation that comes after us and contemplates this demands it to us.

 

 

Contemplating the “study of the feminine expression”, a series of

4 sculptures with woman's body, I think that importance can

to have the woman in their artistic activity... the woman, as mother,

sister, lover, friend, handcuffs, or daughter, she has been, she is and

she will be muse of inspiration, for the artist leaving of this concept,

she motivates different states of courage that they stimulate

to capture a gestate, you can check it in the music, literature,

painting sculpture, etc. the history confirms it to us. The ceramist is

sculptor of their thought, modeling the mud; the feeling.

This strong desire of caress form and life to be able to give you,

with the hands in your interior sublime sensation, mystery 

creator. But that importance has in the work the material employee?

Iron, plaster, stone, polyester, wood, glass, paper, brass stainless

steel, gold, silver, clay, etc. All the materials have their own

language, and the piece is right when the balance between the form, 

the color and the material that gives him support.

 

 

Arnal cannot separate the art of his own life or any activity, 

the same one and their sense is an inseparable unit: the art is freedom,

balance, realization, illusion, an intent to show the thing that captures 

the sensibility and the necessity to share it, subtle the

human relationship. What is the life for you? something so complex 

as indescribable, in scientific terms, a mysterious/complex, 

amalgam of atoms. The thing that is palpable and basing us on the

information accumulated until today that the humans since

we acquire conscience, we have necessity to find answer

to the reason? of the life, and this is very positive, because it

stimulates and it channels our thoughts and activities, archaeology,

physics, chemistry, cosmology, genetics, etc. This means 

investigation, millions of people and resources, after the answer 

of the mysterious query?.... after the life. WHAT? 

among mortal points RICHARD WAGNER, before dying said, 

I have the wonderful sensation that something fantastic it goes 

begin..... in the last instants something is sensed sublime....

Results of a received education? IF!.. all the civilizations 

have asked it to himself, only we have to review the history 

to see the GREAT ANSWER for TOMORROW.

 

You are a calm man and I admire you, I comment him sometimes that I

think it is not part of their personality,  it has been fruit of a long one 

abstraction of the daily thing for that reason I ask him that it means for 

him the word “estres”, the interpretation could be hurry, nervous, anguish,

and he qualifies the absurd life very well and competition the

industrial society. To triumph, money, fame, comfort, as values,

to end up finally, tired and holes and the life to lose sense, to

appeal to tranquilizers drugs, stimulants, because the body

doesn't admit it. Depressions and psychiatrists, do we live this way?

MADNESS perhaps the sculpture that more explains this synthesis

process and abstraction that makes Arnal is “the industrial man”,

result of a logical coherent simple but with their vision in the way

that we live. The function make the form, (basic law of the nature)

the industrial man lives in a way that gives him a posture,

a morphology; developed stomach: excess of fatty and little sport, 

tired of so much fight: something of hump; the anonymity: a face 

without expression, and this way, different data that gathered 

they co-form a sculpture in a position average gestalt...... 

I don't seek anything, such an alone one a humble reflection intent, 

in front of the trap to the one that we are exposed the technique us 

it has enslaved and dehumanized. I don't have time; no 

I have; no; it is the background song.

 

After speaking widely of the “industrial man”, I finally had the sculpture in

my hands, I already knew it. The thing that impress me it was 

the material and the color, GRAY recycled metal. Suddenly I felt the 

sensation of being sustaining THE SYMBOL of our society 

AND DEPRESSED ME; I thought that we follow a road that won't

drive us in fact to a world but humanized. Which it is your road and

your objectives? My road is that an individually carried out being 

and happy the whiles in the study/shop, but impotent, before the 

human madness of seeing daily as the humans, we confront of an

irrational way, and some investments brutal, trying to impose a

system of life, or to give the same for a line in a frontier so many

necessities vital that there is! As big as it is the universe!... you

request me for my objectives; from the moment I am

convinced, that in the life each one is responsible for their

environment, I offer that in the same one there is friendship,

love, happiness, music, color, aesthetics, humanity, and  to capture it,

then it isn't my objective, it's a form of understand the life and to share it. 

 

Meanwhile, I try to contribute with my grain of sand, like a lot of people do,

with more effort and surrenders, in a humble one and honest intent of

contributing with something to the community believing that it will be more

deigns and jousts. I would be happy to arrive to the age to savor that

lived and to check that the life has been an pleasant experience,

and to be able to thank the heat and company intensely of 

those that gave me the life, those that shared it and those that 

they continue. We could continue speaking, of architecture, graphology, 

music, philosophy, history of the art that is their passion, but clear the

time he has their dimension and... heart thank you, sincerely for 

to share some minutes of reflection and feelings. And like says the 

song friends forever. This is the way of our interviewee, a person 

frankly, restless and utopian, but one that a while ago that he enjoys 

of their friendship, he thanks and he suggests you never change!

Friends forever.

 

Rubén Formós Manager of " la PROA" newspaper from BAIX EMPORDÀ


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