I'm a complex character
and describing yourself can be shameless
Profession isn't the most important thing
What's important is creation
the spirit, the identity
And the profession needs to be known and has to be respected
but it also has to be forgotten because it takes away freedom
And this freedom leads to art
"El Racó" is a house...
my home
but it's a very nice farmhouse
which has a lot of personality
very big, with a lot of space
So, whenever there's an empty room
it serves me as a workshop
and I can move around
One day I draw here, another day I go somewher else
And I like that
When I was a kid...
it is difficult to describe, but well
I wanted to be free
And I'm still fighting for it
I've always been a polymath
I always liked drawing
I liked making sculpture
I liked... making pottery
so I've been practising
all those disciplines
I lived in Paris
I had a scholarship to go study in Japan
to study pottery
and someone said: "A Japanese girl has come to Barcelona
you should meet her"
so I met her over lunch
and well, it has lasted until now
[inaudible conversation]
I'm a post-cubist artist
I was lucky to be in Paris
during the golden days, from the 50s to the 80s
And I met all the masters
I met Picasso and we became friends
I met Giacometti
I worked with Miró
I worked with Chagall
So I had an amazing luck
When my father died I thought
that something had to be done to remember him
because time erases things
and then I thought to make studios
and bring artists here
He was a master to me
because he taught me the profession
but he never taught me as a master
He taught me as a friend
And we were lucky to collaborate
with Joan Miró during those times
By then, both Joan Miró and my father
were old and I was a youngster
and I needed them to teach me
and they needed me because I was young
and I was the one who did the job
My personality isn't the same as my dad's
and I couldn't follow my father's path
because I would have always been my father's son
I did what I wanted to do
Nowadays, we, ceramists, seem like dinosaurs
but it will not disappear
there will always be a madman doing pottery
When I make a piece of art, I
or a sculpture, or a drawing, whatever
I'm saying something
and what I'm saying is what I'm feeling
or what I lived or what I want to live
Before I made naked ladies
now I make fish
Because if I start making naked women
I will be considered a dirty old man
I'm happy with my life
It has been long, intense
I've done many things
and if I had to choose again
I would do the same