Paint destroying and destroy painting

Vicente Rojo during an interview at his studio in Coyoacán in Mexico City.Gladys Serrano

In the interviews that, after much resistance, he began to grant at the end of the sixties, as well as in his autobiographical evocations, Vicente Rojo (1932-2021) established a clear distance from the claims of “everything that being a painter means socially” .

With clarity sustained for decades, Rojo clarified: "My interest was to paint and not to be a painter, which for me is not the same."

If one thinks of the excess of fantasies that the use of the brush embodied in recent centuries - pictorial and sexual voracity (Picasso), eccentricity ...

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