I just want, in the name of the members of various promotions and artists generations, more than appraising, to thank your truth.
A truth that is enterely fueled by a deeply high and permanent artistic and moral neatness, taught with humility, without grandiloquences or indulgences; a patient maker of a risky life: that risk belonging to hard times and the other one, the risk of inconformity and creative rebuilding in an already enhaced existence conferring you a place of extrainning which all of us could envy.

Life and work welded in a unique and consecuent alloy. More than 30 years ago -when I was a teenager and attended your classes at National Art School-, I always had the idea of being before a tired man due to your slowly way of speaking.

That was the wrong perception of a youngster having many to learn yet, this exhausted man is the one who gave me an example of wisdom, creative and vital energy.

I am very proud to have the chance of living the same time and have learned from you.

You cutted the cane, you welded the iron, you bended the paper to give it life and it seems you are conquering what is implacable.

That's why, I firmly believe you are being fairly honoured due to that enormous work you are building for us, for that life enterely devoted to art and to your superior goal: the beauty.

So, let me return to you in this draw, a piece of what you sow in me.

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