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The artist Pablo Burgos, a ‘rare bird’ who wastes talent and personality in Torrelavega

For me, enjoying a good museum, especially a pictorial one, has always been a cure for the soul. Art is for everyone something different, that is clear. For me it is travel, inspiration, history, calm. The walls, of El Prado or Thyssen, for example, have on many occasions witnessed my stresses, decisions, celebrations, as I visited them frequently when I needed calm in the middle of bustling Madrid. Having more knowledge about art has always been one of my vital objectives and, little by little, I am fulfilling it. For this reason, when I meet people like Pablo Burgos (Torrelavega, 1968), for whom art is their life, I feel admiration and I want to know more and more about their opinion about life and the world.

On the beach, one of its corners of disconnection.
On the beach, one of its corners of disconnection. / @ELTIGREDEMALASIA

The protagonist of these lines is one of those people who fill you, who have a voice that dazzles and makes you get into what he tells you, practically upside down. Pablo was always creative, as a child he made houses for his dolls and created a whole fictional universe in which they could play. I guess then, it was not much of a surprise for his family and for himself when he studied Antiquarian and then Restoration. And it sure didn’t seem crazy that he later left that world and graduated in Fine Arts. «I always had art inside. When I came to the field of creation, I was older. I studied Antiquarian and then Restoration, and I dedicated many years to those fields. They have to do with art, but from a less creative point of view. At the age of 30, I radically changed my life and studied Fine Arts », says Pablo with his gaze full of life, experiences, fantasy.

“In art school I teach students from 16 to 86. It’s about people not throwing in the towel and keep working their brain”
PABLO BURGOS

From very early, without finishing his degree, he began his relationship with the Torrelavega Municipal School of Arts. There he worked hand in hand, for example, with Berta Fernández Abascal, from whom he says he learned a lot. Now, years later, he co-directs the school and teaches classes there. “In art school I teach students from 16 to 86. It’s about people not throwing in the towel and continuing to work their brain.” It is fascinating, to say the least, and praiseworthy, to see how it is possible to bring together such different generations to create together. To enjoy your creativity and unleash your most primitive emotions.

Posed together after the interview.
Posed together after the interview. / @ELTIGREDEMALASIA

«It is essential to have an entertaining head. Art can give you a lot of play at that level. It makes you have certain unknowns. It is a process in which there are no absolute truths. You never know everything… You don’t get bored! As much curiosity as you may have… », Pablo tells me when I ask him about what art brings to his students and even to himself. “The relationships that are created at school, with people between the ages of 16 and 80 and over, are wonderful. They help each other with new technologies and fabulous situations occur ”, he shares.

«Art is a process in which there are no absolute truths. You never know everything… You don’t get bored! »
PABLO BURGOS

I think I could spend days interviewing Pablo, listening to him talk about his work, about other artists, museums, countries, travel … He is like that character in a book that stuns you and that you want to know more and more about because everything he has to tell it is fascinating. It even seems that without having gone far from his hometown, he would have lived a thousand lives in one. How fabulous it is to see the world the way he does it! Looking, observing, feeling and wondering what we have inside. He thinks we’re losing perspective a bit… “Now most people don’t see the works. They go to a site, take a photo and that’s it, “he says. And I, who live and love social networks so much, I can only agree with him. We are losing focus and authenticity… We should at least reflect on this.

One of his works.
One of his works. / @ELTIGREDEMALASIA

Changing course, and talking more about Pablo himself, I want him to tell me how he feels about art, what his discipline is: «The languages ​​of art are multiple. I believe from my point of view that I am not God and that every artist can see it in a way. For me everything is born in the drawing and from there the work is captured in a painting, a sculpture, an installation… I move in all disciplines. My creative process is linked to the idea. There are things that need to be finished in a sculpture and others in a video ”, he tells me. And I see it crystal clear, the artist is not that he is multidisciplinary, he is that he creates in his mind, in his internal drawing, small beings, stories, demands … which then take one form or another.

«I love going to flea markets and second-hand shops. Then I find unique garments »
PABLO BURGOS

On fashion he has it very clear. “Coming from the world of antique dealers and so forth, I love going to flea markets and second-hand shops. Then I find unique clothes. In addition, I have a student who works wonders for me and helps me to tune it, fix it … Even, sometimes, to throw it away because there is nothing to do, “he says. He is certainly a fashion icon for me, unique in his style and personality.

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