• Sebastián Castella: "I don't like being called a painter, I'm a bullfighter"

Sebastián Castella, surrounded by his capes and canvases, nailed to the center of El Retiro, in Casa de Vacas, where he exhibits his work

Monologue

,

announced his reappearance after 11 in the morning

, two years later.

Castella returns to the ring in Manizales (Colombia), before six bulls from different herds (Ernesto Gutiérrez, Las Ventas del Espíritu Santo, Juan Bernardo Caicedo), on January 7, 2023. The most important figure in the history of France, so many times conqueror of Madrid, he was always a very "American" bullfighter: "I have the illusion of when I was a novillero without horses".

For the occasion he has commissioned a special poster from the painter Diego Ramos, the great Colombian artist based in Gaul.

The press conference was not about his return, until he jumped the surprise.

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"I don't like being called a painter, I'm a bullfighter"


Castella's reappearance will not be a one-time thing,

but a firm project that will continue in Spain, "to compete with all my colleagues."

He returns hand in hand with the Matilla family, "I always liked big houses," he says, alluding to his passage through the seizures of the Lozano (Luis Manuel) and Martínez Erice (Chopera).

Sebastián Castella confessed in a recent interview with EL MUNDO that he did not like being called a painter, that he had always felt like a bullfighter, only that he needed time to grow up and a plot to express himself: "Since I left my house as a child to be bullfighter I have never had time for myself. I did not mature as I wanted. And that is what I have done. Travel in

a different way to know the world

. To give value to life, you have to know the Earth, yes. That is why I retired del toro. I never stopped in 20 years. I finished the campaign in Spain and started the one in America. Always marked by the demand for results. I didn't grow artistically either".


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