W ithin the masterly atmosphere of his studio where beauty, history and above all art
are breathed, Carlos Terrés answers our questions.
Where did Carlos Terrés come from?
I came to the world inside a cultured family, simple and traditionaly Mexican middle class,
I grew up in the atmosphere of a purely Jalisco state town and Cultural, Lagos de
Moreno. Being my parents apothecaries, I grew up among the recipes and remedies of
the pharmacy. My grandmother, my aunts and my mother who were painters, instilled in
me a taste for colors and shapes.
What was first the painter or the sculptor?
The painter arrived first. The sculptor was after an economic collapse of my parents. They
sold the pharmacies and started a haberdashery and a newspaper, my Mother, painted
behind the counter, also working on the restoration of religious figures. I began to help
her and that's how I became interested in sculpture. My Mother died when I was 11
years old, she left me her teachings to walk the road I am in today.
How do you catalog your work within the trends?
My style is "Terrésiano" I call it myself. I have tried not to catalog myself in any trend
or style, nor to follow any movement or group, I simply work with the impulse to do
the best I can and what I like.