The Mariano...
Series: «Farmers», Tempera on paper, 70 × 100 cm (27.56 × 39.37 in), 1985...
"El Mariano", as he was called in his homeland, a peasant and farmer from Purmamarca (
province of Jujuy, Argentina), was and is a natural singer, with a privileged, intense and heartfelt voice, which is why every year, from 1983 until today, during the first weekend of January, the Selva Vilte organizes the Purmamarca Copleros meetings and Mariano participates with his privileged and expressive voice when singing his verses that reach the heart, in the copleros circles as we can see in the work. Counterpoints are made, they go around in the wheel, with the verses they tell their lives, their sorrows, their joys, their loves, their feelings.
