President Alberto Fernandez affirmed today that access to art “is as important as a person being able to access food” because the former “feeds the soul of the people”.
“Art brings us together. That a people can access art is as important as that it can access food. We clearly need food to survive, because it is the food that our body needs,” the president emphasized.
Upon receiving at the Casa Rosada the replica of the mural “Portrait of characters: Gabriela Mistral and Berta Singerman”, by the Mexican artist Roberto Montenegro, Fernández he added: “It is art that feeds the soul of peoples.”
“Art says a lot and can say it in a thousand ways: with the colors of a painting, with the chords of a song or a piece of music, with a letter in poetry. Thousands of ways that can touch the soul of those who can access art,” stressed Fernández.
In this context, the Head of State highlighted: “In the times we live in, where sometimes individualism is so cruel, seeing the work of muralism, which is a great team effort, should also call us to reflect on the wonders that can be they can do by working together.
“The two artists permeate this work, which is clearly dedicated to them (the poet Gabriela Mistral and the singer Berta Singerman), a Chilean and an Argentine. And it was painted by a Mexican. A wonderful synthesis of what Latin America should be: a place of communion,” the president completed.
In another section, Fernández pondered his “friendship with Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador“, the Mexican president, and specified: “We Argentines owe our beloved Mexico, the debt of having embraced the persecuted, those who escaped death (during the last military dictatorship) and having opened their arms to leave them be people in conditions of dignity”.
“That Mexico has had the enormous kindness to give this treasure to Argentina is something that I am grateful for. I want to be frank, I am doubly grateful because it comes from Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorwho is someone I love and respect dearly, who is my friend from a distance, who is a great president,” he said. Fernández.
And he concluded: “The work already has an intrinsic value, but I assign an additional value to it, which is that he gave it to us Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, which is not little. I who really value art and the work of artists, I think they are so important to give us content in the soul and a moment of joy, I really appreciate that this mural becomes part of this Bicentennial Museum”.