English traduction by Erik Valdes

Frenchmen Participate
in "Living History" Discussion

Ideorealism as international movement was the round table theme

Ideorealism as an international movement in painting was the theme that arose on Tuesday the 12th of December at the Center for the Arts during the conference "Living History", led by Yannig Guillevic and Yvo Jacquier, artists that are currently exhibiting their works at the Gallery of Arts and Sciences at the University of Sonora.
The main concepts of this artistic movement were explained in a round table discussion in which participated Fernando Tapia, Sergio Zaragoza, Omar Cadena and Marco Mendoza, as well as the ideorealists themselves.

Took part in the round table Clotilde Barbier, Yvo Jacquier, Albert Alvarez, Fernando Tapia, Sergio Zaragoza, Omar Cadenas and Yannig Guillevic.

Sergio Zaragoza spoke about the differences between an artist and a collector of art and made reference to the quality of the work with regard to the material and the richness of these creative acts. "A collector of art is the most envious person in the world, since upon buying it and hoarding it, he deprives other people of art. He is a monopolizer by nature since he hoards earthly things", indicated Zaragoza while referring to his own art collection. Brought to Hermosillo through the French Alliance, the paintings go back to times where the elementary was the essential thing in art. Characteristics of western culture and plain graphics are mixed in a conceptually modern framework yet they show something of primitivism in the painting.

Fernando Tapia, director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History, indicated that this movement is a very clear current in the history of the art, when a series of elements and intellectual affinities come together. "We find ourselves with a new manifesto and therefore, probably the distrust that will arise in the spectator, in the critic and in the observer of contemporary art, will be very large", expressed Tapia. He added that there are two sides to Ideorealism. One of them proposes the end of an era and witnesses the contemporary and what can be rescued from this world, and the second, proposes to motivate the spectator to make art. "There is always a dialectic battle, similar to war, in which collide abstraction and figurative art", indicated the Director of the INAH.

Yvo and Yannig describe their feelings as members of the Ideorealist movement: "Ideas are dreams that finish well".

Yannig Guillevic and Yvo Jacquier, French artists,
exhibit their work in the Gallery of Arts and Sciences at the University of Sonora.

Captions of Photos: Guillermo Hernandez/THE IMPARTIAL