SHORT.
FERMÍN SANTOS, artist.
13/06/2008 - R. OVIEDO MUÑIZ
WITH HANGER. Santos hangs his work in El Olivar. / JESUS \u200b\u200bDIAZ
have to be a bit 'Got Fingered' to turn a bar into a showroom. That is exactly what we just accomplished Fermin Santos (Oviedo, 1969) in El Olivar (Dark Street, 1), a place where every day parade artists people to live musicians and strange. On one wall of the establishment, a bimonthly show off their creative works. Drinks and discussing art in Live is now possible.
"And so the idea is clear, get you and your work opens with a series of boxes with hangers, as if inviting people to 'hang' his work on the wall.
"Actually it was a coincidence, but one possible interpretation. The works are full of emotional and personal things, sometimes, not even me to find success. Hangers are in principle nothing more, then everyone will hang around your subconscious.
- And not rather hang someone in particular?
"No, no, I have no vocation to the executioner.
- Do you know that museums can sue for unfair competition?
"Man, I think the bar is actually one of the more legitimate sites to host artists. This is not to say that museums are boring, we only give one more option.
- Can anyone explain? "Sure. There is a 'web' that acts as column systems of communication ( http://www.20alolivar.org/ ). Then there is a group that participates in the selection, as Ivan Daste, gallery Dastan, the historian Javier Fernández Granda, developers and owners of the bar (Lucia and Amador) and myself. "You
recorded and studied interior design. Can you live in these arts?
-the Art, in general, can be very bad life. Says a survey out there that only 4 out of 100 artists eat to tell, maybe it's true.
And in Oviedo, how's the artistic level?
"Well ... quite well if you do is compare it to a North African city. Now, if you start looking at Gijón, there are 1,000 times better, more trips to the plastic culture. Here are theater and opera. I love it, but not enough.
