Don't You Dare Define Me, That's So Limiting!
«I've sailed up the Nile; I've laughed my head off in a few DJ booths in Ibiza; I've gotten drunk in Koh Phangan; I've dived with a dozen sharks in Roatan; I've climbed the pyramids of Kalakmul; I've changed a flat tire in the middle of the night on my way to Africa Burn; I've stepped on the black sand of Reynisfjara beach and I've slept in the Sahara desert.
I have a wonderful life.
I've never lost a second: I've set up hotels in Madrid and Lisbon, designed quite a few clubs and restaurants, appeared on the covers of a number of magazines.
All those experiences were great!
And yet what really makes me shine is how much I enjoy the next project, the next trip. I live by and for design and art. In a world where everyone wants a telescope I have a son who can see the smallest detail, as if he had a powerful microscope.
It is the desire to enjoy, to seek solutions, to make the world a more useful and beautiful place that makes me shine.
Well, that and a good glass of pink champagne. Or two.»
Portraits for the 21st Century.
They are large-format portraits of great people, of brilliant people, inside and out, that combine the description of external features with internal ones.
These portraits are influenced by the old canopies of the West End theaters, done with mixed technique and retro materials, replaced today by digital screens. They try to be brilliant by focusing on the essentials. Not only do they shine, each piece is a mirror. Whoever looks at them, will always see it differently, the light is always different as is the reflection in them: each second we change, like our surroundings, and like the portrait in which we reflect ourselves.