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“Art must give hope to humanity”, he says
Artist Noé Katz donates his painting Transparencia to World Vision Mexico
June 04, 2018Convinced of the work undertaken by the World Vision Mexico organization in favor of equality and the well-being of children and teenagers, visual artist Noé Katz (Mexico City, 1953) donated his painting Transparencia, which he created specifically for the humanitarian organization.
"The work was a tailor-made suit for this NGO that has taken on the task of caring for children to be protected, have education and culture, opening up the outlook to their intelligence, imagination and away from other things that can be terrible," explained the multidisciplinary creator in an interview.
He said World Vision is making a major effort to help children who have suffered violence in their homes and fled from them, eventually living on the streets. "I am an independent Mexican artist interested in a healthy youth in society, that's why I created and donated the painting", says the artist.
The painting Transparencia was conceived by Katz with the mistreatment of children and young people in mind. It shows four figures, father, mother and children who interact with each other, transparent beings who mix and embrace, whose faces present the symbol of infinity.
"I made the work explicitly for it to be used and exhibited, for people to understand what World Vision is all about. With the beings of light that appear in the picture it is shown that there must be honesty in the family, and the communication must flow in it. The family is the basis for the existence of a healthy society," said the artist with 40 years of career.
He said that the ideal thing would be to have a positive attitude towards daily life within the family unit, a good life as a couple, a friendly relationship between parents and children, but when there is none of that the child fights, the beatings and mistreatment appear. "It is in these situations that World Vision appears to try to educate and fix the family relationship”.
Noé Katz reported that the 2.50 x 1.40 painting was exhibited at an event of the organization and signed by the guests. "The people who symbolically signed the painting endorsed their commitment to support World Vision," he said.
Concerning whether art should be socially meaningful, Katz says it is not always. "José Vasconcelos determined that art always had to have a social sense and it was made to educate people. If it weren't for the Aztecs and the Mayans, this country would be in serious trouble, we wouldn't have a base to support ourselves culturally as a nation.”
In his opinion, art must give hope to humanity. "In the time of the Greeks, Aristotle advised Alexander the Great that when he conquered a nation he should never destroy art”.
"The fundamental basis of a society is to understand its own culture, when families and children understand it there is a personal growth, they generate a love for the country and its history, which works as an empathy of union among all”.
"Art can be so honest that it can impact, save antisocial behaviors and offer another option to look at life, it opens up the imagination, the thought, it keeps children away from vagrancy, problems, beatings," he said.
Katz currently exhibits his work in private galleries in Chicago and Los Angeles. One of his works is part of the collective exhibition Trompos, muñecas, y papalotes. The popular toy in art and in everyday life, open at the National Museum of Popular Cultures.
He began as a graphic designer after studying at the INBA school in La Ciudadela and continuing his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.
He has ventured into drawing, painting, sculpture and mural work, in addition to dedicating himself to editorial design. He has participated in more than 15 group exhibitions and his work is part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico, the Tokoro Museum of Modern Art in Japan and the Museum of Latin Art in California.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
