CF: Now we wanted to ask you, speaking more specifically about your work, if you could tell us something about your project Antagónico and also if you could tell us about your work Me quedé solo con mi pintura, where we see these phrases that seem to be written by different people over time and these numerical sequences; what do they represent? And what role does time have for you, what meaning does it have and how does it relate to your work?

AM: Well, regarding the first one, linked to Antagónico: it's a series that I made from the waste of other paintings, this means that there are paintings that I don't like much and I work on top of them, so when I work on top of them it becomes like 'antagonistic' what was behind and 'protagonist' what I paint new. So this antagonism is very important, it's like life, sometimes we know who we are, antagonistic or protagonist, but we are part of something. In my work this happens, there are many things that are antagonistic, but they are key protagonists of my work. Many people tell me "I like a painting, I like this, I don't even know why but I like it", what they don't know is that there is something behind that makes the final piece very striking, it's the antagonism, like the antagonistic part of my painting. So that's very important for me. 

The second part: Me quedé solo con mi pintura, "I was left alone with my painting", is a phrase I made in the pandemic. There are different phrases, I regularly write things during the day, depending on the music I'm listening to, depending on what's happening in my life, depending on what I've done, where I've gone out, what I've seen, and it seems to me that painting has to have that, or at least my painting has to have it. And the theme of the pandemic cost me a lot of work because it was like being locked up painting, that's why I wrote Me quedé solo con mi pintura, because my painting is constructed from people I know, from people I fall in love with, from friends I have a beer with, so it's constructed from that and to construct something from this quarantine is very complicated. 

I also write a lot from the music I listen to, I like music like Sabina, Serrat, Fito Páez, so I write the phrases of these people who help me because they understand my same artistic language, I write them and then I use them in my painting, I make them stencilled and I use them. And it reinforces a lot of what I say, there is a phrase of mine that says: “Parte de mi se queda hoy aquì”  which means "Part of me stays here today". There is a Cuban artist who is a very good friend of mine and then I listened to one of his songs and I said: "Of course, part of me stays in the work". Well, Fito seems to me to be a genius and so he tells me things and I write them, I project them into my life and then I transform them and put them in my painting. Music is very important for me, music is key in life, in my life and in my painting and I can't paint without listening to music, I can't paint without listening to people who do the same as me, talking. 

The numerical sequences: it's like the touch of something, because suddenly 1,2,3,4,5,6,... it becomes an infinity, so in my piece the same thing happens. I don't want people to see it as something completely established, but as something alive that is changing colour, that is finding other forms, that there are writings, that there are texts, that there are like many things in a whole that are the numbers, the numbers mean that. Like there is nothing and at the same time there is everything, it is an infinity. And I explained it with the sequence of numbers. It's like a representation of infinity that I would like people to understand in my work. In the end it's very difficult, because it's like never arriving at nothing, that is, my work never arrives at nothing, so today I paint one thing and tomorrow I paint another and then I come back and then I don't like what I painted yesterday, and then I'm thinking of painting something else, and then if I'm reading a book I want to put it there, if I'm listening to other music I want to put it there, if I saw other eyes in the morning I want to put them there, so I'm going like everything in nothing.