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In this section, you will find excerpts of some interviews with Pont Vergés at different points of his career. The coherence of his statements over the years is remarkable; despite his radical changes in style (it is difficult to classify him into a movement or a trend in painting), a constant and continuous search marked his life from the beginning to the end.
Excerpts of Interviews with Pedro Pont Vergés
EL MUNDO, Illustrated Morning Newspaper - Culture Supplement
Wednesday, September 7th, 1960
Pedro Pont Vergés, Painter
By Aldo Amuchástegui
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 - Why do you paint, Mr. Pont Vergés?
- And you, why do you write? I don't know, it's very difficult to answer such a question just like that. I started drawing as a child, and kept on doing it on my own until I began to study engraving with Alberto Nicasio. One day, some seventeen years ago I think, I found myself painting. Later on, I had Ernesto Farina and Roberto Viola as teachers and I couldn't stop painting anymore. Today, painting is for me as important as breathing; by its means I consolidate ideas, I catch them and try to express them. Am I able to communicate through it with my fellow beings, or am I not? It doesn't matter. There are my pictures, and they are part of myself.
- When you finish a picture, does it matter to you if other people like it? Or is it enough if it only satisfies you?
- I think a true painter should perforce care about his attitude towards the picture: I paint neither for the public, nor for my friends or my foes. I paint because I have to. I'm the one responsible and I might or might not be satisfied, but I feel that ultimately that which is done doesn't belong to me anymore, it turns into a living being with its own responsibility.
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- What is your artistic goal?
- To try to live eighty years in order to search out a real solution to the problems of my painting.
- Are you satisfied with yourself?
- No, indeed. If I were, it wouldn't make any sense wishing to live eighty years.
Other interviews:(Click on the titles to see the interview excerpts)
VOSOTRAS – Year XXXVII, # 1936
Buenos Aires, June 14th, 1973
An interview with Ines Malinov
CLARÍN, CULTURE AND NATION
Buenos Aires, Tuesday, October 27th, 1977
Interview with Hellén Ferro
LA VOZ DEL INTERIOR, Córdoba
Sunday, March 3rd, 1985
EL PICAPORTE – Opening Stories (TV Program in 2 parts, broadcast on Canal á)
Interview with Patricia Casafus, 1997
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