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Onésimo Colavidas
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INTERVIEW

Onésimo Colavidas
By Nicola Jackman-Anthony

The Catalan artist breaks the current rules and risks with a new figurative work of religious nature. After ending, at the end of 2008, his first religious theme of Mary Magdalene for a Romanesque church, he now presents his second “sacred” work with the figure of Jesus. Sharing two styles - the Italian renaissance and his own - the author of the work has used different formulae of proportion to reflect and to transmit the natural perfection of human beauty.

Sipping a mug of coffee, we find Onésimo at his study in Barcelona. Softly spoken and confident, he transmits a wise knowledge that is not only achieved through age, but through a man whom knows how to enjoy life and discovers beauty in the most simple and common things and aspects of the day-to-day in the city. An empty flowerpot, a skyline invaded by TV arials and chimneypots, natural or man made, beauty is always present. After a few minutes enjoying his vast library (art, in all of its vertients and facets), and surrounded by a small sample of the versatility of this well-known artist who, smiling, allows us to penetrate a world where there are only two key words: art & beauty.