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in April 1937. In 1955, he settled in Paris where he met the
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in 1968. It took 17 months of 10- to 12-hour days to complete. The silent, 75-minute film was first exhibited at Madrid in 1970. The technique is hand painted film. Sistiaga used the same vocabulary of his paintings (lines, points, color) onto the film celluloid and obtained random patterns of
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From the middle of the 1990s, the artist got a generous space in
Antiguo district (in San Sebastian), allowing the artist to produce his huger canvas: Cosmos Oceano, The Four Seasons, Maurice Ravel's tribute are some of them.
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colored points that evoke the atomic matter or the "Primitive soup" of universe. Subsequent screenings took place in London, Paris, Barcelona and New York City.
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