Pedro Castaño will be exposed from May 6, 2004 until May 31, 2004 in the representarte art gallery of Barcelona; a series of acrylic with characteristics of oil and matter.

When did your artistic anxieties began?
When I was a very small boy. In that stage of my life, I loved to see the billboard of the movies and then paint them in the notebooks of the school. The ones I more remember are the Zorro, Tarzan, the animals, and the landscapes of the forest. In fact, I am still conserving some of those drawings. Later, when I was 11 years old, the teachers of the school presented me to a provincial contest and I gained it. Then I was an altar boy and the priest of my town Mr. Antonio, gave me my first paintings. It was the best gift ever given to me. Since then, I began my career of painting.

Which painters have influenced you in your work? By which you have a special predilection? Why?
The painters that have influenced me are the great deal impressionists. I have special predilection by the work of Jimeno, Serrasanta, and Sorolla, which I love the clear-darkness colors, the landscapes and its lights. When I go to Madrid, my favorite place to visit is his home, “Museum of Sorolla”. There, I remained for hours and hours admiring the pictures. It is a great deal to me, to be in his study and to be able to see the brush strokes and the palette which he painted his magnificent pictures and his last work without finishing. I believe that he was without a doubt, the painter that better grasped the light.

What are the themes that are more pleasing to you to reflect in your painting?
It is the one that in a given moment, inspires me. But it pleases me more to express the figure, provided that being in movement, carrying out something. And what does not really please me is to paint a portrait because it is more static, but I have painted some.

Where does your inspiration come from to create your pictorial work?
My inspiration has to be very much with the state of my spirit. There are days that I am very nostalgic and I paint a picture in which moments I have lived are reflected, for example that of “Los Algodoneros” where my family is reflected catching cotton in the town. I painted that image by pencil when I was a boy. Other times, I paint a navy as the “Albufera” that impressed me when I visited Valencia.

Do you believe the mission of art is not to trust the known things and to concentrate on the unknown things where the artist should try to discover a sense that is practical an immediate of our world; to cause the feeling through the emotions that the reality can be poetic?
I believe every single person interprets art in a different way. There are so many different types of art and tendencies. I believe artists should demonstrate that they know how to paint before changing the style as Picasso did. And the reality is if they are able or not to be poetic. This depends on the individual.

What should be the role of the painter in the present society?
I believe it should be as a normal person that makes his artistic work the best that he knows, trying to make the people know it and recognize it for which he paints.

Do you understand the painting as a commitment of the artist with its stage of life and its environment?
I do not. Although the normal thing is to reflect in your art works what happens in your stage of life. To me, it pleases me to express in my pictures motives and landscapes that I have in my remembrance.

How would you define your painting? What techniques do you use?
Fresh, alive, agile, and nervous. It pleases me to transmit what I think and feel at the moment with my brush strokes. I am very impatient and therefore I believe that the best is more spontaneous. I use the oil on canvas, wood, paper; also the acrylic, the spatula, and paste. I am comfortable working with any technique and it depends on the inspiration of the work that I use.

The works that Pedro Castaño exposes in representarte seduces because he shows an agile, fresh, and alive painting. He makes it so that all the colors have a correspondence. This artist puts the art in the reach of the entire world.