Singer, poet, writer and artist in his spare time, which saved his voice when he should shut up but needed to continue to count things, Joaquin Sabina an “intruder” among cartoonists, declare one “impostor” who, after going through surgery, decided to indulge in a deluxe edition.
“At 66 and after a stomach operation that was close to peritonitis, I thought that at any other time I would have been ashamed to be so exquisite collection (…), but also thought it was not my idea and was well aware of craftsmanship of these objects, “says the singer in presenting the book.
“I thought I could maybe afford the whim and my girls, they think I’m a horrible singer, begin to believe that I am Picasso . And to compete with Luis” Leonardo “Aute, which has always been a painter, “he joked provoking laughter in the audience
And confesses.” In fact, just I know how to draw; for me was the way to get the tension between concerts, especially in recent years that forced me to be silent to save a whisper to give my public blessed. And I began to scribble, calligraphy, poetry. “His” garagatos “.
So, account was filling notebooks up to fifty with more than 2000 drawings,” each of his father and his mother, inspired by things in life, for my cats, by Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh … “.
” All my life I’ve been an impostor, I liked to get into places where no I was invited. Thus began with music, I went from young children mandrakes sites to big stages and Latin America. I never thought, never dreamed, so maybe enjoyed it so much, “Sabina shared.
” O He enjoyed so little contradice-, because when things happen that you are like Gifts pagan gods, which you have not fought, you live it as if it happened to another; therefore, that other I put a bowler to not be confused with this idiot without bowler I am, “he says, humble.
They are 66 drawings, beautifully edited in two volumes that are offered on a wooden box painted white, which simulates a real door of the house of Sabina where are reproduced the drawings he put it, yes, with a craftsmanship that makes the package in another work of art
As explained today at the presentation of the exclusive product director of Artika publisher, Juan Ribalta, 4000 998 copies were sold, of which a thousand 298 have already been reserved for the regulars of the publisher, that will for sale at a price of 2000 $ 290.
“I am aware that most of my audience is not going to buy, or have to,” says Sabina, declared bibliophile who Ribalta defined as “global artist” and “creative amalgam”
The first volume, with drawings and comments autographed artist, is divided into five chapters with five theme you have chosen Sabina:. the myths, the The second eroticism, her princesses …
includes stories, secrets, stories and lots of pictures, along with literary contributions from friends like Luis Garcia Montero, Javier Rioyo, Nativel Preciado, Benjamin Prado and Felipe Benitez . Reyes
Sabina sums up his view of himself, draftsman or painter: “I am eclectic, have been stealing like a catch.” And there are his interpretations of Matisse, Bacon, Picasso and Van Gogh and his love for the “pin-up” the Mexican Vargas, by the black film, the black comic “and for the asses of the girls.”
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