The Sutegi Hall in Usurbil has hosted, from 3 to 12 November, a silent and delicious exhibition, which will remain open to the public. Usoa Zumeta has served as a curator, has shown humility by saying that the artist has done no more than take and put those he had kept in the favorite place of his studio, but the decision pleases him, the austerity helped him, he did not want more.

The works are also simple, simple, subtle, silent, serene. Alejandro Tapia left without making noise in Aiestaran (Aginaga, 26 November 1930 – 24 December 2016). The exhibition has been placed in his honour, the catalogue has been edited and distributed among the visitors. And the viewer gratefully, but also pity him, because the photo of the paper remembers instantly when he saw this painting, and with him, and above all, his inability to renovate it.

The catalog contains two texts written by Anjel Lertxundi and Bernardo Atxaga, and so collected by Atxaga: “Sometimes, as in the poems of Basho and his friends, they get an INSTANT, the last light from a sky.” The artist has lived by looking at nature, it makes everything miraculous in its simplicity, the landscape is always its interior landscape.

It's also from Atxaga: “For fourteen years in the catering workshops of Tolosa and San Sebastian, the son of a farmhouse, the laborer, Tapia decided in 1962 to give himself up completely to the painting, after winning the prestigious Christmas Prize. Do you have to leave the job? They said at home thinking about the world around us. There was no scenic atmosphere or a particular painting. But he had an interior aspiration, he couldn’t take the paint out of his head and decided to risk it.”

Thanks to some of them, they decided to risk, thanks to some for beauty.