Gitanillo de Triana, Antonio Bienvenida, Manolete, Luis Miguel Dominguín, before the epic run on the Anniversary of Beneficencia. Plaza de toros de Las Ventas. Madrid 1946.
Brave!
This is how my father said goodbye when he was going to face some social or academic test.
If they go wild you can show off. And the brightness, according to Didi, is the temper, the harmonic control of the situation.
My father saw the art of bullfighting (which is dance against death) as a paradigm of living.
Torear is the metaphorical frame of all doing and in particular of making competencial.
To draw, to write, to fight against the bravery of the avatars that can be mortal.
Sometimes I dreamed that I was fighting, living fantasies of tight, patterned, retarded movements, full of muscular and dynamic pleasure.
Javier Seguí. 9. Temas a tratar.26.06.09