Ytaelena Lopez: How do you connect to this year’s theme?
Bartus Bartolomes: It is the year which vertebrates the world project of the dematerializing of art and art sciences; it is the millenium of the fusion of all aesthetics (Bartus)
YL: What do you hope gallery visitors will take away with them after visiting your piece?
BB: Above all, I do not want them to return to a traditional mode of looking at art. An installation must remain a spontaneous creation and stay the closest possible to what our imagination dictated to public life and viceversa.
YL: What are the concepts & emotions behind your work?
BB: It is a state where poetry matters. A Visual Conceptualist Poem contains a world and the world. My approach resides in the interior logics which animates art evolution. Dynamics leading myself to expand my geographical territory with joyful and freedom, yet using all kinds of motivations, tech, mix-medias, sculptures, videos, etc, which, however, never jeopardize the wholeness of any other approach. My art pieces are useful for generating a phantasmagoric world, always surprising, always saturated with humor and colors.
Interview by Artist Ytaelena Lopez to Bartus Bartolomes
San Francisco, 2012.
13th Annual Day of the Dead Exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center.
