José Manuel Broto and Asia: The footprint of the void

His parents met at the school of Arts and Crafts in Zaragoza, and in their house there were always paintings, watercolours and pencils. For José Manuel Broto (Zaragoza, 1949) there is an attractive and mysterious component in the relationship between East and West. When something doesn't work out, he repeats it. In other cases, paintings must be left, or so Miró said: after a fortnight he would come back and say "Man, if it's finished!" In Oriental art, the void is a structural element of the images, which he represents in the form of an ellipsis. He likes to leave traces, traces, that the spectator can reconstruct to achieve a more powerful image.
Fifth episode in the mini-documentary series entitled "Asia and Me. Conversations with artists", which includes extracts from interviews with thirteen artists by the curatorial team of the exhibition "The Asian Principle. China, Japan and India and contemporary art in Spain (1957-2017)" as part of the oral history project "Asia and contemporary art in Spain".
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