"The finality of Art is not showing the apparent, but unveiling the secret soul of things". Aristotle.
The extraordinary can't be said in a conventional way".
One has to get to Reality religiously, like a Believer to his God; you have to get to it in slippers, like a Mother to her baby's cradle, quietly, to surprise her in her whole greatness.
The Essence is comprised of a minimum of matter and a maximum of meaning.
"Everything but the fundamental is written in the music score". Halffter.
"Art is a parable of Creation". Klee.
The value of photography resides in its ability to evoke.
Beauty is perfume, the content: an inner status, a status of conscience.
"Making photographs means to acknowledge the fact by itself and the rigorous organizations of forms, visually perceived, that give them meaning.
It's about putting in the same axis the eye, the head and the heart". Cartier Bresson.
"We make the difficult immediately. We last a bit more for impossible".
Groucho Marx.
Press
"The collection gathered here gives us a vision of high ethnographic interest, even anthropologic". Julio Caro Baroja. Foreword for "Arrantzale", 1993.
"With talent and nerve, conjugating art and alchemy, is possible to achieve this marvellous kaleidoscopic". Jose Mari Muguerza. 1981.
"Watch carefully the collection of images that Fede Merino shows you and, at the conclusion, you will feel something new: the contact with creation". Javier Urquijo. 1981
"His legacy is simple pictures, loaded with sentimental expression. They display a serene respect for the characters he has enfolded with forms and harmonic movements. Their traces resemble certain oriental painters, with a minimum of matter in search for the maximum meaning". Josu Bilbao. El Pais Newspaper. 1998
"Stealthy hunter of memorable instants" Gorka Castillo. El Correo Newspaper. 1998
"Are these images of Bermeo and its people, music, poetry, sculpture, painting and who knows what more. Because this work "Arrantzale" is, in fact, his most authentic portrait". Txema García. Egin Newspaper. 1994.
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