The best of the magic of figuartive art, interview with Xavier Carriles

 Karen Lavand.- It is true that there are no prodigies in the art of painting. What approach can you have of this judgment?

Carriles.- Childhood is innocent, and what is worth is observing. Then there is the technique, which will inevitably come if there is a passion, the technique will spoil you.

Karen Lavand.- What are you painting now, because your painting has changed suddenly.

Carriles.- It is totally different, because I am in a different life, I have been traveling to many parts of the world. That has set me free.

Karen Lavand.- When I met you, you were in an Asturian village, and from what I looked at you painted many watercolors and drew many figures.

Carriles.- It is true, it was a time of great tranquility, I was coming out of a stage of creativity, of teaching. The beauty of Spain is that you can be anywhere and it is the same culture, everything is very similar.

Kren Lavand.- What prompted you to change the way you paint?

Carriles.- It's not that something has made me change, I've been doing that for many years. I've always been changing from the beginning, it's my personality. And in reality it is not a change, it is looking the other way, because I have always liked painting in all its angles. What happens is that you have to choose well each part of those aesthetics, it is not easy, but I do it with all the passion since my childhood.

Karen Lavand.- We met in Barcelona, ​​and I remember very well that you were driving a motorcycle, I was directing Elvira's gallery, but you introduced me to Jack Firman. And that was what led me to go to the national museum in stockholm. Are you a painter who is not doing anything and you are very big?

Carriles.- The only thing I've wanted to do is keep painting, even though I have good friends. But I don't want to say anything, or where I've been or why. I consider the art I make to be a product of my innocence. Of the dreams of a childhood that I had spectacular, and I cannot laugh at art, it only amuses me to see artists who want to be famous based on relating to people, but what matters to me are works of art. As you will remember when we went to the Sabadell museum, and we admired how Matisse himself framed them.

Karen Lavand.- I still have the cutouts of the windows with the drawings.