Interview by Jimon

1-Where do you currently reside and work? I live in Alicante, Spain. However I was born in the Basque Country (I say this in case it has any influence on my paintings).

2-How would you describe Lupo Sol? I don’t know … complex, ironic, insufferable … I’m not sure.

3-Did you attend an art school or is it inherent?  I have no official studies related to art or even drawing. To get to study art I had to study a lot of things first that made my head explode, a shame.

4-How long have you been making art and what lead you to start? About five or six years ago I decided to invest all my time painting, this is due to the lack of job opportunities and also thanks to my wife who motivated me to pick up the paint brush.

5-How did you acquire your style?  I don’t know, drawing as always, making my puppets, I can’t tell you, I’ve never sought to have a style.

6-Have you ever come across a piece of art that you could not or did not want to stop looking at?  I am going to quote El Greco and El Bosco. It’s not very original, but no abstract painting would blow my mind.

7-Tell us something about the art world that you want to see changed? It would start by destroying capitalism, later we would see the subject of art. For the rest, I am a painter, an artisan, more than an artist. I paint what I want and I just want a decent life, so the super world of art, of guys with ties and of hallucinated and metaphysical artists does not appeal to me too much.

8-Why make art?  Because we have it all inside us, because it is yours, because it allows you to be yourself, because you have been lucky to feel it and you know that it is your home and your refuge.

9-The future is _________?  A gray cloud and many clowns playing guitar and singing to romantic love and human stupidity.

10-Is there any reality behind the characters in your paintings or are they purely fantasy?  They are pure and total reality actually too much reality.

11-What advice would you give putative collectors? That they should buy my works now that they are cheap.

12-What’s the best advice you’ve ever received in regards to your art?  To raise the price of my paintings.

13-How do you define success?  Live doing what you like without financial hardship.

14-Do you have a place/person/thing that you visit for inspiration?  I only check Instagram for information about painters that I discover. Yes, I know it sounds very sad.

15-If you could have dinner with 3 artists living/dead who would be at your table?  Well, I would tell you three favorites that come to mind: Goya, Kirchner, Guston. Now I will tell you who I would really dine with, because in addition to being great artists they are great people, which is what matters to me in order to share a table: Ron Throop, Jose Luis Micó and for third place we would do a raffle among some excellent artists that I follow on Instagram.

16-Name three things you can’t live without in your studio? Oh, cheat question! I paint at home, in the living room, with very little space … but I would like to have space, air and order.

17-How would someone find you on Social Media? Instagram @lupo_sol    Also luposol66.com, where I show a limited selection of my paintings that I consider most relevant.

18-Please name the first thing that comes to your mind while reading the following:

Art=  An oversized word

Food=  I’m a bad eater, sad to say. But I can say: potato omelette

Sports=  Boredom

Politics= Politics is thought, the political circus is another matter

Poor= Politician’s victim

God= That word tells me absolutely nothing

Rich= You’re going to die anyway

Luxury= I don’t really know what it is

Sex= something else oversized and denatured. How old I am!

Picasso= Yes, a genius, but it bores me to hear about him

Religion= The opposite thing to intelligence and life