Gerda Brentani

SELF-INTERVIEW

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What I write is not a criticism, nor a protest, nor a documentary correction. The words self-taught, autobiography, self-analysis exist and make sense.
So why not say self-interview? The self-question certainly facilitates the autoresponder and everything becomes clearer and more self-sufficient.
I share some questions addressed to me by a group of sweet girls, students from (Colégio Dante Aligheri). I swear to tell the truth only etc.

I. What do you like to eat?
II. What kind of man would she choose for a husband?
III. Of modern comedians, you prefer
Daumier or Steinberg?
IV. There were no questions - I lost patience.

A.P. is self-question and A.R. is self-report.

A.P. How do you like to organize your day-to-day?
A.R. Accept an explanatory scribble (image on the side)
As can be seen, Gerda is divided into two parts. On the one hand the right wife, the reasonable housewife, no social ambitions. Feeling: the most gratifying one is to be a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, with a lot of dedication to the offspring.
The other Gerda is a massive piece of curiosity. She watches the world with all that it has to live in its thousand varieties.
Their habits are simple. No fight to have tutú, diamonds and froufrou, sometimes they would find it practical to have a driver, but for what? Both like kashmir pullovers, caipirinha and ice cream and hate cinnamon, garlic and classic ballet with trembling.
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A.P. Do you see life more from the happy side or from the sad side?
A.R. i I don't know how to answer this question. How to separate the two feelings that are always so present in our existence. Joy, sadness, the good, the bad, follow, mingle. The important thing is to know that it is worth living.
Says G. ii: I think the pessimist is a sad figure, but the optimist is a poor beast.

A.P. Do you think your drawings bring joy?
A.R. I think so, at least 40% of my audience enjoys my exhibitions. (calculation done by the Institute of Statistics on prosillating creativity).
A.P. Why your preference in drawing animals?
A.R. Partly for the pleasure of observing the infinite variety of beings that nature has created. Partly because I find certain species so similar to man and sometimes this similarity shows us that homo sapiens is not all that sapiens.

A.P. And your age, your eighty years?
A.R. I calmly accept the passing of time. Sure, the changes are many, but they proceed slowly. Pleasures are others always in minor and slightly boring tones. Renunciations are restful - let's be frank. In the years of good life I sometimes took a solemn and healthy drink. I think now a binge would be neither solemn nor very healthy.

A.P. What are your ambitions now?
A.R. Modest, I believe. To be able to draw to the end. See a book about animals that came out of the oven this September 86, and have my loves with me in full possession of the head and legs.
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A.P. Would you like to be remembered by posterity?
A.R.
I think it is a process that does not depend on me. Plugged in several files I already am. Do I deserve a biography? I do not know. And if well-meaning citizens would dedicate a statue of mine from my day to the city, it would certainly look like this. (top image)

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