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HERMES Luaces: Art is unavoidable.

  I accompanied Hermes Luaces for a couple of hours through the streets of Bucharest waiting his train to Tescani, Bacău , a residence for the artists. In 2008 he won the George Enescu Museum first prize for composition in the bigger frame of the International Enescu Festival . After a while we found each other again in Bucharest. Each time we talked, we shared beautiful, consistent thoughts. Some of his ideas never left me, but it's only now I manage to do this interview and resuming some of the discussed ideas.          Hermes Luaces, 2018, © Fundaci ó n BBVA Sibi-Bogdan Teodorescu: In his Secret life, Salvador Dali, arguably the author of an opera, describes how he attacked a young violinist with the simple reason to demonstrate painting was superior to music. If this were pertinent, what would be your opinion? Hermes Luaces: Well, Dalí was a great artist but also a great showman. It is difficult to know what he really pretended with that action. Regarding the underl