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Classical music sounds in your workshop.It is a museum of your art.Upholstered walls of framed enamels.He does the frames, too.Tables with drawn papers, pencils, buriles, spatulas, brushes.Everything ordered!What a neat.Next to glass jars with colored pebbles, even the ovens seem jewelry.Vilasís is a carpenter, draftsman, goldsmith, enameter.Craftsman, artist.Thousands of Catalans wore their first communion medals, for years their livelihood, until they turn to their women's faces.He reflects his work the book L’Ar d’Emaltar to the Foc on Metalls Gravats, repoujats i cisellats (pagès editors).It was a maximum prize at the VII International Biennial of Limoges of 1974.There is his work in many museums in the world.If nobody remedies it, your personal collection will end in Japan.
Of politics, better not to speak
I lived a war.Politicians should join, and separate us.United would be the admiration of the world!
Did we ever went?
Barcelona was the world capital of art when I was young, with Paris and New York.Despite our postwar period.
What art was yours?
The enamel.I have practiced it every day for seventy -seven years.And here I continue, every day more alone.
At what age began?
He was twelve years old.I drew well and my father took me to the Escola Massana.While my father spoke with Soldevila...
Soldevila?
The director, enamelier teacher.I sneak away, I snapped at school, I saw a narrow door, I looked out...
He gets excited.
That day my life changed, I saw the fire of the vitrification oven, I was dumbfounded.When my father and Miquel Soldevila found me, seeing my face, the teacher prophesied: "This child will be a enamel".
He succeeded.
I was his student eleven years.I learned the precious millenary techniques of the vitrifiable enamel painted to the fire on metals.
I see pots with colored pebbles.
I have 700 different colors with which to enamel, and my ovens to vitrify.It is my Fire Art Workshop.
What is special for this art?
The Egyptians invented him five thousand years ago, and until today.I have done nothing else, draw and ename..Look at these pieces.
Medallions enameled two sides, what a fineness of drawing and colors!
A Japanese teacher told me: "There is nothing like a fire painting, which I have seen".There they preserve this art with love, in Japan they worship me.
How thorough the pupils of the eyes.
They would give me fortunes for these eight medallions, but I was doing them for Margarita, my wife.His are.She told me: "Teach them to Mr. Amela".
Greet your lady from my part.
I fell in love with Margarita just to see her, she was 14 years old, I 21.I went to his town every week to see her, Cantonigròs, made me wait for six years.And one day came and took my hand.
Are you crying, Mr. Vilasís?
If I cry.That moment is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me.
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I almost faded.Margarita is what I love most.
I see.
She has accompanied me in international exhibitions.I have made sixty -six individuals.
I see that you draw women's faces.
The woman is my devotion!The Virgin Mary, and my mother, and my wife.Without the woman there would be nothing, neither you nor me.
It is true.
Veneer the motherhood, honor in every enamel.Each human life is an immense miracle.He realizes?
Sometimes I forget.
Always remember, being alive is amazing.And art makes life better.
And what would his father say if he saw him today?
He told me: "I have been a slave all my life, I want you to be free".He succeeded.I have never been sent by anyone, nor have I sent anyone.I have been free thanks to my art.
Could you thank your father?
Yes.He had a lot of sensitivity, he couldn't channel her in art.He did it with me.
How do you define art?
Any work that excites you deeply.One day my father took me to the meadow, I with 16 years.Before Las Meninas, my father broke down to cry.I have never forgotten.
Great art!
All art is great!Every craftsman in the Gràcia neighborhood, with his workshop on each portal...Art!I admired them!
In agreement.
A wood, a cardboard, a fabric...Skill, technique, experience...All this that disappears today from Barcelona and Catalunya a world artistic focus.
And his art also disappears?
The art of vitrified enamel is extinguished.In my heart there is a moment in the exhibition in San Diego, in 1985.
What happened?
A septuagenarian looked my pieces, approached me, kissed my hands, hugged me with tears, and left without speaking.
What is the most difficult thing about your art?
Successive cooking are needed, and if something fails in the last cooking you will have lost months of work.
In this art of fire, are you today the best in the world?
It was with the Japanese Oota and the American Bennet.Now I am still here.
