The goldsmith's gold

Look at the piece.Works a little more.The mold.It gives some tap.The final touches.The residual dust blows.And sits to contemplate it.Now yes, man.That piece of dead leather that they sent from Mexico has its own life.Now yes, man.The World Boxing Council (CMB) saucer was already embedded inside and in a jiffy all magic arises.They were two months of labor for this goldsmith that carved that golden album with passion.They were drops of sweat, inspiration sparks.Desire is going through it, the feeling of duty fulfilled."Do you like how it was?" Asks Adrián Pallarols out loud.What to answer?.If it is the echoes of the warriors of yesterday those who have to give the verdict."Do you like it or not?" He insists the goldsmith, with an accomplice smile that betrays him.He knows that the gloom of his Buenos Aires atelier are being illuminated by that legendary trophy, done only for those who are able to burn the story.Until the last flame.

The WBC belt poses on an oak table.Hopes to be packed and dispatched to Mexico.Wait, patient, find an owner.The temptation not to send it is great, maybe.But there is a vital force that pushes him to get rid of his work."I love boxing.But I think about it and...What is the use of staying my belt?The success has to be in the hands of the champions, ”says Pallarols, who dedicated twelve, fourteen hours of his life, to the creation of that green belt, which with him carries the weight of glory."If those things would stay them, they would not help him at all.The pieces have to go into the world and live.A hidden treasure is not treasure, it has no life;Because as nobody knows it, nobody wants.Part of life is that the belt interacts with the world that is surrounding it, just as Floyd Mayweather Jr does., who usually exhibits the belts he conquered ".

It is a common type of pallarrols, does not offer grandiloquences;In fact, the only brightness that has hung springs from an 18 karat chance.Do not obnubila with the brilliant of the jewels.But his daughter Morena is barely dazzled appears on the scene.With her, he counts, he made one of the presidential cane models.I also believe different personal use elements for some people from the entertainment world is appreciated for what it is and coveted by what it does."They recommend me from mouth to mouth," he says.However, the biggest stained glass window obtained it thanks to a religious friend.When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio became Francisco, he received the divine support he needed to relaunch his career after having become independent from his father and his brother."I became independent, I stayed with the shoes on.And when you walk in the bad it usually happens that you stay alone.Thanks to work and dedication, one day I became the goldsmith of Pope and Vatican ”.

Pallarols left all the channels in the world because he carved the chalice that Francisco took on his trip to the United States.But the story that moves the most is another.You will never forget the day when you turned off the TV.It happened in mid -1986, when Raúl Alfonsín ruled.Pallarols threw gloves on the seventh floor of the Geba Gymnasium."It was my first knockout," he says, proud.Knockout, yes, but against.He put everything black and lifted him among several, he remembers.That blow was a tube to the unconscious, unconscious that now bids out.He could never, he did not want to escape that passion that condemns him.And quietly, he continued training in modest Buenos Aires gyms, with illustrious strangers who wanted to tear off the neck, downloading the tensions of a life full of problems.Apparently, the ring sieve equals the one who has everything with which he has nothing.

El orfebre del Papa que cincela el sueño de los boxeadores

While throwing blows in the air, Pallarols was winning a name in the conspicuous world of jewelers.But he wanted to give the big blow elsewhere.So much that he offered to make free trophies for the Argentine Box Federation (FAB): "I wanted to work Ad-Honorem for the FAB, but I was not heard, so I continued with mine".His thing is to work as a machine because there are no machines that work for him.His is not like a shopping, where one chooses the made shirt made.“Here you have to be all day, draw, sit down to scribble with customers, who demand as much as they pay.Inspiration is not a music that falls from heaven.One thinks a lot.Strip sketches, weapons models, in wood, in telgopor.And only when you more or less see him aimed, you start working.Velázquez said that art is five percent inspiration and ninety -five percent perspiration.You have to be there, working.Inspiration is born to fight with the papers, ”.

He had a dream Pallarrols, and was going to fight for him.After training in several places without lights or shadows, in 2002 he began to box in the gymnasium of the Faculty of Law, along with Jorge Driussi, who was Sparring of Oscar Natalio Bonavena, when Ringo lived in Parque de los Patricios.What did this professor of Fine Arts of the UBA combine hooks and crosses?Was he pursued an aesthetic end or channeled tensions?Who knows.He studied social psychology, philosophy, is a turner, cartoonist, but he needed another way of expressing himself.In this case, with closed hands.And that's how he continued fighting, until Francisco got him, perhaps, the best work of his life.“Being the goldsmith of Cardinal Bergoglio, the WBC approached the Vatican to organize a sports competition in order to get the boys out of the street, and I was entrusted to me some trophies.From there in more, Mauricio Sulaimán (N.of r.: President of the WBC), he asked me to work by doing belts and here they see me, working ”.

The WBC belt poses on an oak table, esperando ser empacado y despachado a México.The temptation to adjective it is great.But why add sugar to a dulce de leche jar?There is the green scepter, with its bronze brass disc, pulled mirror and gold veneered.It was once from Carlos Monzón, now who knows where that relic will go."The meaning was to give the added value to the materials.Do not use expensive materials.The tempera that one can use to paint is the same as others use, but the added value is given by one according to how you use it.The value of things does not depend on how faces they are but what they mean or represent.I worry how a meaning and aesthetic fact can be generated at the same time.Therefore, in one of the belts that they commissioned me, I included the face of José Sulaimán (n.of r.: Historical President of the WBC), the portrait of Muhammad Alí and some laurels, which symbolize glory in all its fullness ”.

Francisco has known for 18 years and so deep is the relationship with the Pope who spoke once a week."I call it to your cell phone";She says, without fear of what they will say.Thanks to him he touched the sky with his hands.Pallarols made three belts.The first appeared in May 2016, at the T Mobile de Las Vegas, in Canelo Álvarez's fight against Amir Khan.There he rubbed shoulders with the mastodon of sport like Holyfield, of the Hoya and Hand de Piedra Durán.Then he worked in the papal belt, an unpublished, white and silver version.And he made another for Gennady Golovkin's fight against Jacobs: “It was in March last year when I went up to the ring again.I greeted myself with the historic presenter Michael Buffer and lived everything from the inside.I looked at the fight with my nose attached to the canvas, ahead of journalists, because I had to climb between combat and fight to deliver the belts ”.

The same drops of water that wet to Golovkin in the New York night corner, also splashed Pallarols, a few meters below.The same trumpered that hit the kazajo up there, also rumbled meters below until stirring the viscera of this artist in trance, who could no longer, nor did he mind hiding the unbearable feeling of having arrived.How great it will have been the reward received for him who approached him and asked Osvaldo Príncipi, a legendary rapporteur and boxing commentator, to try to define that moment."There are things that say shut up";Eduardo Galeano wrote.What thing.Pallarols had reached the ring of the mythical Madison Square Garden.And I couldn't explain it.He, the goldsmith, had just fulfilled the dream to him, the frustrated boxer.