My name is Alberto Thirion and they call me the most
famous painter in the world, they say it as a joke, but I liked the
nickname and I have taken it as a slogan.
The nickname or slogan
was born as a logical consequence of a work entitled the death of the
devil. This is the story in broad strokes, when I was still young I was
exhibiting my work in the company of other fellow painters, among all
the spectators who by the way this time there were many, a boy arrived
who must have been rich, to whom they were going to buy a painting as a
birthday present.
The boy's mother did not want to buy the
painting, but the boy was armed that this was the painting he wanted,
his mother told him that how he was going to hang that painting in his
room that he was surely going to have very bad nightmares, etc. Since in
the play the devil appears decapitated and bleeding, -and he watched
the scene without participating in it- the boy threw himself on the
ground and began to have a great tantrum, hitting the ground, etc., etc.
At
the time that he said he is the most famous painter in the world, I
already love her!!!, I love her!, he shouted!!! And he shouted other
praises for the work that in his opinion were fair, with the desperate
aim of convincing his mother, but she did not buy the work.
That's
where my fellow artists took it from to give me that nickname, years
later already with the vision that time gives when seeing things in
perspective. I think they unconsciously. They identified with that
child, who loved that painting so much. Then that painting was stolen
from me, by a thief who also wanted it, I guess, but he didn't have the
money to buy it, it comforts me to think that the work took him away,
the thief.
