He has lived in the city of Rio de Janeiro for 16 years, is married to a Brazilian and lives in the Santa Teresa neighborhood, where he has an atelier. He has held over 150 expositions of his paintings throughout the Americas. He lived in Europe for two years, in Mexico City for two years, in New York, a year and a half in India and seven years in Panama City. A self-taught painter, he left his country 30 years ago and since then has visited more than 50 countries. Jorge Selarón was born in Valparaiso, Chile, in 1947. I was dreaming for ten years about making sculpture. It seemed that God wanted me to make it with my own hands. It was emotional, because I had never made sculpture in my life. the tiles and the possibility that they offered to keep the work open, in transformation, allowing countless changes without damaging the whole. I thought that this was original I had never seen stairs with bathtubs anywhere in the world. The steps are in a quiet residential neighborhood, so be respectful. Grand View Park is located at Moraga Street and 14th Avenue in San Francisco, California 94122. between 15th Avenue and 16th Avenue in San Francisco, California 94122. But I was happy because the stairs were clean and had a garden with bathtubs. The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps are located on Moraga St. First it was with the bathtubs, and during six years nothing happened. The thing was that I started to arrange the stairs little by little. When I started the stairs, twelve years ago, I started with the bathtubs. I will only finish this work on the last day of my life. I thank the neighbors and friends who have always helped to conserve my work, made with such sacrifice, obsession and affection. … The stairway has 215 steps, 17 landings, and 16 entrances and it is four meters wide. It has Portuguese, Italian, French, Dutch, Belgian, Russian, German, English, Spanish, Moroccan, Egyptian, Turkish, Greek, Mexican and Brazilian tiles. The work has become a tile collection with 1,000 different pieces, open day and night to the public. Whenever I obtain prettier and more sophisticated tiles, I place them on the steps, exchanging them with others, so that the appearance of the steps is in constant change. "This project started in 1990, as my homage to the Brazilian people, using the colors of the flag of Brazil: green, blue and yellow… The tiles were broken with a hammer to obtain a style known as Byzantine mosaic, mixing pieces of tile, entire tiles, pieces of mirror, crystals, and pieces of porcelain. Translation, excerpts of an interview with Selarón on Augby Denise Fonseca:
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