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By: Azad Karimi

As I already mentioned, drawing and painting captivated me since I was very, very young. But illustration, understood as the telling of stories through images, captivated me relatively recently, about six or seven years ago.

Interview

Spanish-Argentinian Painter Juan Di Pane Sánchez

By Azad Karimi

My good friend Juan is a real human being. Full of motivation and respect and I am very happy that he is my friend.

In this world in which we experience life for a while, we go forward and experience what comes our way without knowing what is to come.

Juan spoke about his father and that he sees pride in his eyes because he sees the success of his son Fathers are strange creatures and have a different world from the world of mothers' relationships with their children. ...

They have many wishes that they expect their sons to fulfill ... But I wish they tried to fulfill these wishes so that they would not expect their son to fulfill these wishes later because human beings are the children of their time and their age gap with their fathers is one generation... A generation is a long process that many values and norms change and fathers' wishes do not necessarily to be pursued in order to be realized but some wishes, however, are fixed and eternal and that is the wish of success for children from the parents ... and I congratulate Juan who has successfully fulfilled his father's wish.

Finally, I urge readers to pay attention to the text of the Juan interview.

I wish happiness and success to my dear friend, Juan.

Thank you!

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1. Please present yourself (Name, education, Civil status and...)

. I was born in San Juan, Argentina, on April 5, 1971. I am 49 years old and I am currently separated, although new and happily in love. From my childhood, I was fascinated by drawing and it became my favorite activity. In adolescence, I began to study painting privately and graduated from high school in Plastic Arts. Later, I obtained my Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, another discipline for which I feel a great vocation. I always linked both facets, training in Art Therapy and other related branches. Since 2015, after a previous period of experimentation with different forms of artistic expression, I decided to reconnect with my essence, taking up my love for drawing in a professional way. I trained as an illustrator and graduated with a Master's in Illustrated Children's Books.

2. What is your artistic specialize?

.Although I have dabbled in sculpture and drama (more specifically puppet theatre), I have to assume that I define myself as an Illustrator and a Painter.

3. When and how did you become interested in this field of art?

.As I already mentioned, drawing and painting captivated me since I was very, very young. But illustration, understood as the telling of stories through images, captivated me relatively recently, about six or seven years ago.

4. Who was your motivator?

.Well, that question is somewhat more complex to answer, because if you are referring to a single person who motivated or prompted me to follow the path of art since my childhood, there is no clear reference. But it is true that throughout my life angels appeared that gave me signs that I was on the right path: professors and teachers, friends, family, my previous partner and of course and in a particular way the current one. Each and everyone was the food that gave me strength to convince myself that I am an artist.

5. What was your parent’s reaction?

.My mother loved the virtuosity of my hands when expressing myself through painting, my father… too, but he was afraid that I would become an artist, since he thought I would starve. Anyway, I am aware that it was their way of showing me that they loved me, trying to protect me from an uncertain future. The fact is that my mother died almost 20 years ago, she was not physically present when I decided to take the wheel of my own life and become an artist ... but without a doubt, from anywhere, I perceive that she is happy about I did it, and she is proud of me. As for my father, who is fortunately still alive, he has been able to contemplate the steps I am taking and has expressed how sorry he feels for not having motivated me as a child. The truth is that I no longer care that it was that way: I see in his eyes the pride he feels and that reconciles me with everything. Things have been as they should be.

6. When started you such as a professional artist-painter?

.It was in 2015, before (since 2012), I did some shy collaborations with some artist friends of mine, which were a necessary step to gain confidence. But professionally speaking, only five years ago.

7. Are you thankful and happy because of your activities as an artist? .Totally and absolutely happy and grateful. I am completely convinced that I cannot and should not take a step back because in art I have found the way of life that allows me to manifest the essence of who I am and complete the meaning of my life. In a way, I feel that illustration also allows me to channel the baggage collected as a psychologist (collaborating with so many people over the decades, helping them to reconstruct the story of their life stories), now linking it with drawing, as the narrative medium of my characters. It is like magically closing the circle of everything I have harvested in my life until today, giving it a new meaning for the future. How can I not be grateful for that?

8. How you see the view for art, painting and future of culture?

.In the same way that culture can never cease to exist, art can never cease to be generated. Art emerges from culture and at the same time perpetuates it in an eternal feedback loop. Of course, we must be prepared and with our minds very open to the new frontiers that art is going to open and reflect, because it is a living system, in an always avant-garde evolution ... Lovers of classic beauty resist it. I think they are wrong. Without delighting in earlier art forms, we should not cling to the ballast of the past; better, let's add it to our cultural baggage, but let's receive with open minds and criticism the wonderful news that art offers us.

9. Why do some paintings become immortal?

.Oh! There are many reasons, but I think one of the most powerful is when an artist has achieved a perfect communion between: a sublime technique; a unique style; a sincere, honest and raw way of expressing emotions; and that all this allows him to become a channel between what is happening to his society and what is happening in his own soul. I mean ... magic.

10. Can you become one part of the artistic-cultural movement for motivation in youth or new generation in your country and so than?

.I hope so. And I have no great claims about it, that is ... I don't think you need to become a renowned and well-known artist around the world to achieve it. Just by touching a young soul or mind ... whatever the chronological age of His (or her) body is, and help him to feel that he or she is a fundamental part of the necessary change for our world to be a better place ... if I’d feel that, I’d already may die happy.

11. How can you help our world become a better place to live?

.Doing what each and every one of us must do, be a person of good ... it does not matter if you are an artist, baker, scientist, military, whatever ... effectively seek the good of other people.

12. Have you more word to say or suggestion for our readers?

.Let's encourage ourselves to live without fear, that is already PURE ART in itself.

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