Artist Francisco Souto discusses ‘A Memory in Peril’
On Wednesday afternoon, Francisco Souto and I met at Kiechel Fine Art for our sixth and final “A Memory in Peril” conversation. Here’s a short part of that hour-long talk, beginning with his comments about the appeal of the detail in his drawings. “Part of the reason people get so intrigued about this is the level of detail,” he said. “So I was really excited to see, in the opening night, people looking at the work with a magnifying glass. I’m looking at my work through magnifying glasses almost in a metaphorical way. I’m seeing my country falling apart in that kind of scientific part and the viewers are doing it in the same way. That got me pretty excited when I saw people doing that, really close contact with the work as well.”