Etsuro Sotoo: "La Sagrada Familia is a catechism of stone"
( Alba Digital ) - A Europe came from Japan (where he was Professor of Fine Arts) to study the "origins of the stone." His first job here was as a restaurateur in Germany. But he met the Holy Family in Barcelona and asked to be employed there, even chipping. His plans for a few months were extended until today, thirty years later. And what's left. Throughout the interview, Etsuro speaks generously of Antonio Gaudí and the Sagrada Familia, his teacher and his school in the faith, a conversion key carved stone (the mark of Sotoo could well be a cross, a hammer and a chisel). Nice tribute to the universality of Church construction of the Sagrada Familia English Reus initiated in 1882 and among its followers are today this friendly and curious Fukuoka Japanese.
- What led him to Europe, chance or providence?
-Providence. Everything is providence!
"And in Europe, Barcelona. Was it hard to understand Gaudi first visited the Holy Family?
"Even then, though not Catholic, I wanted to be faithful to Gaudí, grasp its essence. But I realized that for many it was my will, it could only go so far.
Portico of Charity
"I learned to be looking not Gaudí, but where looking Gaudí. Because there is much difference between being Catholic and not. If you're not, you will sail along the surface of a sea called Gaudi. If you are, go down to the bottom of that sea.
- Do not drown?
-No. It is like entering another dimension.
-His conversion to Catholicism, "influenced his way to work?
"It became easier, safer. Now I work with fewer questions, with more freedom because immediately perceive the meaning of what I do.
- Does that mean that for you the Holy Family has no secrets?
"Even now - thirty years later! - Discover things. Gaudí wanted to do a catechism in stone that people could, in fact, learn every day, always.
Portico of Hope
"With that the people who visit return. Because there is no better church than the one that is revisited.
-Mission accomplished: the Sagrada Familia is the most visited and revisited-of-Spain.
"Because those who visit are looking for something, no matter whether they know it or not. The Sagrada Familia is a point where you can find what you are looking for.
"Both tourists do not you dislike?
- No! I love to watch their mouths open, their eyes in surprise.
"And when you pray, do not distract you?
-in prayer, even if a thousand people around, only Christ and you are you.
"So people do not mind, you are not the typical artist's drawing.
-La Sagrada Familia is easier to understand it a boy or a housewife, a modern architect.
- Why?
"Because many architects build not to improve the lives of people, but to honor themselves. Quite the opposite Gaudí.
"For you art is not only a source of income, fame.
"It must be, above all, and like any human discipline, a vehicle (sometimes an Alfa Romeo, sometimes a Doscaballos) that leads to Truth.
"And in that way, your guide has been ...
-Gaudí.
-A her teacher often asked when he would be ready by the Sagrada Familia.
"And he answered:" The customer is in no hurry. " The client, of course, was-and remains-God.
- And you? In a hurry?
"I think the longer we delay, the better.
- Why?
Portico of the Faith
"Because while we build we have the opportunity to learn. However, once built ...
- So much is learned?
-Gaudí did not build the Sagrada Familia. It was the Sagrada Familia which Gaudi built! The same thing happens to those who work in it.
"At some point will have to inaugurate. Are you sad?
"No, because I know that tomorrow we will start working on its restoration, that is also ours.
-Suggests that the Sagrada Familia cathedral is Europe.
"It's an illusion, a dream. I think we must face the truth with humility, without prejudice or ideology, like children, eternal sons of God.
- And the prayer? "You enter it as a child?
-Yo, when I pray, I pray to God to make me a better person. It is my daily struggle. And when I win, if only for a moment, thank you. Blog
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