ELOY MORALES Interviewed by Paloma de la Torre

Paloma de la Torre – When did you decide to devote full time to be an artist?

ELOY MORALES – Since I was a child, I never wanted to be anything else. However,  I devote myself to it completely since I was 20 years old.

PALOMA DE LA TORRE -  Were you a good student in school?

ELOY MORALES - I was not an exceptional student. As a matter of fact, I wasn’t too bad either although I am clearly from Arts and used to struggle with math.

PALOMA DE LA TORRE-  What inspires you to create?

ELOY MORALES- Several things such as people, feelings, particularly the need to fulfill myself

PALOMA DE LA TORRE-  What would you change about the world?

ELOY MORALES-I would change a lot of things…I don’t even know where to start ...

PALOMA DE LA TORRE-  If you could resurrect someone who would you choose?

ELOY MORALES-  My grandparents, of course

PALOMA DE LA TORRE-  What do you really think about contemporary art?

ELOY MORALES- I love contemporary art

PALOMA DE LA TORRE-  What would you do or say if you had the world's attention for 30 seconds?

ELOY MORALES- I think If I had the world's attention for 30 seconds I would run or hide under a table.

PALOMA DE LA TORRE-  What things are you afraid of eventhough knowing that there is nothing to fear?

ELOY MORALES- I am afraid of to many things: passage of time, for instance.

PALOMA DE LA TORRE-  If your friends had to highlight the more negative parts of your character, what would they say?

ELOY MORALES- You would have to ask them.

PALOMA DE LA TORRE-  What drives you crazy?

ELOY MORALES- Several things: hypocrisy, cruelty of human beings in general and, in particular, cruelty to animals, human falsehood and selfishness ...

PALOMA DE LA TORRE-  What is your favorite painting?

ELOY MORALES- Pope Innocent x Velazquez

PALOMA DE LA TORRE-  Who is your favorite artist?

ELOY MORALES- Velázquez

PALOMA DE LA TORRE -  Are you superstitious?

ELOY MORALES- Yes, a litle bit,  I have to recognize it... 

PALOMA DE LA TORRE-  Do you think some people/critics are devaluing contemporary art?

ELOY MORALES- There always are who devalues ​Arts in general... However, it happens not only in the Contemporary Arts... In fact, I respect the word: ARTIST too much but some people don't use it in a right way

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- Does Internet have a positive or negative influence in Artists? 

ELOY MORALES- We'll know in the future; I believe that technologies offer us wonderful possibilities. However, we are misusing  and destroying many things with them.

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- What do you think about contemporary Mecenas helping to promote artists through social media and the internet?

ELOY MORALES- I do not see any problem if done right

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- If you let a shark and a crocodile in the same pool, who would win?

ELOY MORALES- I use to hear that when you fight nobody wins in any case. Therefore, I don't want to think about this happening.

PALOMA DE LA TORRE  Do you like poetry? Have you read any of my poems?

ELOY MORALES- Yes, I've read some of them...However, I hardly read poetry.

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- What would you title a book about your life?

ELOY MORALES- Untitled

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- What is your favorite animal?

ELOY MORALES- I love animals... I have two cats

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- Which one of the seven major sins do you commit more often?

ELOY MORALES- I am not religious at all... I am not committing sins at least those considered serious.

PALOMA DE LA TORRE Would the world change  if it were dominated by women?

ELOY MORALES- The world is already dominated by women

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- If you had to give employment to someone what criteria would you consider the most important?

ELOY MORALES- Honesty

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- What is more important for you: freedom or security?

ELOY MORALES-  Freedom

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- If you went to dinner with your clone, would you enjoy his company?

ELOY MORALES- It would be boring ....

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- Do you believe it is possible to know a person by the music he/she listen to?

ELOY MORALES- I believe it could help you

PALOMA DE LA TORRE How many paintings do you paint yearly and how long it takes you to finish your work?

ELOY MORALES- One per month

PALOMA DE LA TORRE Do you think about yourself inside any Art movement?

ELOY MORALES-   Figurative, 

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- If Playing a movie about your life, what actor would you choose to roll you?

ELOY MORALES-   I am not sure... Maybe,Eduardo Noriega?

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- Let's say for the rest of your life you could only eat one thing, which one would you decide to?

ELOY MORALES-  French Fries

PALOMA DE LA TORRE-  What emotions would you like to transmit through your Art? 

ELOY MORALES-  The way I feel things, of course.

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- If you were famous for one day what kind of famous person would you be and why?

ELOY MORALES-   It is very rare for a living painter to become very famous... Ask people on the street who  Gerhard Richter is

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- If you had to choose a figure of comic for your father, which one would you choose?

ELOY MORALES- Conan the Barbarian

PALOMA DE LA TORRE- would you define contemporary art as multidimensional?

ELOY MORALES-  is mostly plural, a prerequisite for art

*  Thank you so much, Eloy... One of my favorite artist ;O) A person who transmits to me passion and reality through the retinas of his hands... adding deepth to my eyes; A genius who always knows how to be at the same level as the rest.Paloma de la Torre (Cromofora La) 
in "Sugar Is Anesthesia" 

Interview assigned exclusively by the artist to Cromofora La (Paloma) Online Contemporary Art Gallery (c) 

See more at  http://cromoforalapalomaonlinegallery.blogspot.com.es/2013/11 /eloy-morales.html