0:00:09.060,0:00:14.060 [Luchita Hurtado: Here I Am] 0:00:14.100,0:00:15.680 [MAN] Oh look, there you are. 0:00:17.080,0:00:18.300 Okay, here we go! 0:00:18.300,0:00:18.960 [HURTADO] Hi! 0:00:19.800,0:00:21.100 Good to see you. 0:00:29.000,0:00:29.980 Here I am! 0:00:31.260,0:00:32.620 [WOMAN] You're royalty! 0:00:32.620,0:00:34.240 [ALL LAUGH] 0:00:43.500,0:00:45.000 [APPLAUSE] 0:00:48.460,0:00:53.840 [WOMAN, OFF SCREEN] Tonight, we celebrate[br]a historic moment for the Serpentine Galleries. 0:00:53.840,0:00:57.880 We also celebrate[br]a historic moment for our artist. 0:00:58.760,0:01:05.220 Luchita Hurtado is just one year short[br]of her one hundredth birthday. 0:01:05.220,0:01:07.880 I think that deserves another round of applause. 0:01:07.880,0:01:10.180 [APPLAUSE] 0:01:12.340,0:01:17.000 Her career has been defined[br]by such a unique view of the world. 0:01:17.000,0:01:23.060 Messages like, "When it comes to the environment,[br]there is nowhere to hide." 0:01:23.060,0:01:24.640 [HURTADO] That's right! 0:01:24.640,0:01:28.960 [WOMAN] This is her first solo exhibition-- 0:01:28.960,0:01:30.860 in a public institution, in fact. 0:01:30.860,0:01:35.369 And it is also the first time[br]that we have shown 0:01:35.369,0:01:40.380 over one hundred paintings[br]by an extraordinary artist, 0:01:40.380,0:01:43.147 who has been named as "Time" magazine's 0:01:43.147,0:01:46.340 one hundred most influential figures of 2019.[br][APPLAUSE] 0:01:46.340,0:01:49.000 [John Mullican, Luchita's son] 0:01:49.000,0:01:52.380 [Matt Mullican, Luchita's son] 0:02:01.380,0:02:02.580 [HURTADO] Okay. 0:02:21.900,0:02:25.540 These "Birthing" paintings are fun to do. 0:02:29.080,0:02:33.000 Motherhood is full of wonderful,[br]wonderful times. 0:02:39.480,0:02:43.180 What you can do with a sky[br]and a belly button... 0:02:45.460,0:02:46.940 --[INTERVIEWER] How do you feel[br]about this one? 0:02:46.940,0:02:48.080 --[HURTADO] I like it. 0:02:49.520,0:02:50.420 --I like it. 0:02:51.660,0:02:55.260 This joy that you feel with a new baby, 0:02:55.269,0:02:58.830 this is a joy that[br]there is no explaining it, 0:02:58.830,0:03:00.799 no talking about it. 0:03:00.799,0:03:02.049 You have to smell it, 0:03:02.049,0:03:03.520 you have to live it, 0:03:04.500,0:03:05.660 to know it. 0:03:07.660,0:03:09.240 --Okay, that's it. 0:03:11.500,0:03:13.300 --Yeah, it's done! 0:03:13.300,0:03:14.700 [LAUGHS] 0:03:20.460,0:03:22.500 The important things are not money. 0:03:22.500,0:03:26.340 The important things are[br]the animal part of us. 0:03:29.300,0:03:33.140 We live in a very limited world, 0:03:33.140,0:03:37.740 and we're doing away with it[br]in a very systematic way. 0:03:38.820,0:03:40.500 We should all be concerned. 0:03:44.040,0:03:49.120 I came to America when I was eight years old. 0:03:49.120,0:03:51.740 Before then, I lived in Venezuela-- 0:03:51.740,0:03:53.920 the outskirts of Caracas. 0:03:55.260,0:03:59.600 I loved the design on butterfly wings. 0:03:59.600,0:04:04.320 In the tropics, you have these[br]extraordinary butterflies. 0:04:05.300,0:04:07.620 I would pin them to the wall. 0:04:10.370,0:04:14.560 That pain I inflicted on those poor butterflies, 0:04:14.560,0:04:16.140 I think about today. 0:04:17.420,0:04:19.460 [JACOB SAMUEL] Do you want me to do [br]the number here? 0:04:19.470,0:04:20.470 [HURTADO] The numbers, yeah. 0:04:20.470,0:04:22.200 [SAMUEL] So this is going to be[br]an artist proof. 0:04:22.200,0:04:24.480 I'm just going to put "A.P." 0:04:24.480,0:04:27.620 and then you put your "L.H." over there. 0:04:27.840,0:04:30.280 [Jacob Samuel, Master Printer] 0:04:30.280,0:04:32.800 Okay, we've started. 0:04:36.740,0:04:38.500 We did four aquatints, 0:04:38.500,0:04:40.480 and this is the first one. 0:04:40.480,0:04:42.730 This one is going to the show at[br]the Serpentine in London. 0:04:42.730,0:04:44.720 And then there will be three[br]other ones for the gallery. 0:04:44.720,0:04:46.880 It's very exciting for me to[br]work with Luchita 0:04:46.880,0:04:49.630 because it's living history. 0:04:49.630,0:04:55.180 I've worked with a number of artists[br]that she knows from her generation... 0:04:55.180,0:04:56.680 [HURTADO] I go back a long time! 0:04:56.680,0:04:58.200 [SAMUEL] So it really[br]completes the circle for me. 0:04:59.320,0:05:04.280 [HURTADO] The name that I had growing up[br]was Garcia-Rodriguez. 0:05:05.400,0:05:08.660 That's like being called[br]"Smith Jones." 0:05:09.340,0:05:12.700 I decided that wasn't right. 0:05:13.160,0:05:19.030 I chose my grandmother[br]on my mother's side: 0:05:19.030,0:05:22.420 "Hurtado," not "Garcia-Rodriguez." 0:05:24.120,0:05:27.560 In New York, I lived way uptown. 0:05:28.600,0:05:33.860 I chose to go to a high school[br]that was downtown in the Village. 0:05:35.400,0:05:41.220 My mother thought I was taking[br]a course in dress design, 0:05:41.220,0:05:42.820 and I wasn't. 0:05:43.280,0:05:44.820 I was doing art. 0:05:48.540,0:05:51.400 Man Ray took that photograph. 0:05:53.000,0:05:55.800 And here, you see, is Lee. 0:05:57.300,0:06:00.800 I married Lee Mullican,[br]and had two boys, 0:06:00.800,0:06:02.580 John and Matt. 0:06:05.320,0:06:08.230 It takes a great deal of energy, 0:06:08.230,0:06:09.820 having the life of a parent 0:06:09.820,0:06:13.350 and having the life of an artist, 0:06:13.350,0:06:16.580 working and trying to make ends meet. 0:06:18.210,0:06:22.240 My real painting, I could do at night, 0:06:22.240,0:06:24.200 after everybody was asleep. 0:06:27.180,0:06:29.120 [RYAN GOOD, STUDIO DIRECTOR][br]I used to work for Matt, for a long time. 0:06:29.120,0:06:30.330 And we knew each other. 0:06:30.330,0:06:32.560 But them coming out here,[br]we started just to hang out. 0:06:32.560,0:06:33.560 Go to the nursery. 0:06:33.560,0:06:36.310 Go to the farmers market for lunch. 0:06:36.310,0:06:38.710 [HURTADO] And then we became friends 0:06:38.710,0:06:40.380 and really close. 0:06:41.640,0:06:43.140 You discovered me! 0:06:44.580,0:06:46.640 [GOOD] When I first started[br]finding the works 0:06:46.650,0:06:49.370 from seventy years of her practice, 0:06:49.370,0:06:52.140 I knew right away there was something there. 0:06:52.140,0:06:55.700 With the family asking me[br]to help out with Lee's estate, 0:06:55.700,0:06:59.360 I started to uncover works[br]at Lee's old studio, 0:07:00.180,0:07:02.150 most of which were unsigned. 0:07:02.150,0:07:05.500 Maybe only one in twenty[br]had the marker "L.H." 0:07:08.120,0:07:10.180 She changed her style quite often. 0:07:10.180,0:07:13.160 It's actually an interesting[br]element of her practice. 0:07:15.980,0:07:18.640 It took maybe a year and a half[br]or two years 0:07:18.640,0:07:21.740 to be able to find someone[br]that wanted to do a project. 0:07:22.740,0:07:24.800 Hans Ulrich Obrist came across the work. 0:07:24.800,0:07:25.860 [Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director] 0:07:25.860,0:07:28.930 I remember hearing that he wanted to[br]have a visit with Luchita. 0:07:28.930,0:07:32.500 It transformed everything[br]from then there on. 0:07:36.080,0:07:39.600 She's surprised and excited[br]that all of these things still exist. 0:07:39.600,0:07:41.740 I think she thought many of them were lost. 0:07:43.270,0:07:45.620 She's making new work almost every day, 0:07:45.630,0:07:47.720 so there's new things all the time. 0:07:47.720,0:07:50.220 Her new work is what[br]she's most passionate about. 0:08:02.000,0:08:03.840 [HURTADO] I'm very sensual. 0:08:03.850,0:08:07.110 I love smells and tastes. 0:08:07.110,0:08:09.390 I love fruit, you see. 0:08:09.390,0:08:11.300 Religion is full of fruit. 0:08:11.300,0:08:12.240 [LAUGHS] 0:08:13.380,0:08:16.300 An apple means more than an apple! 0:08:18.520,0:08:22.600 Those self portraits were[br]a real surprise to me. 0:08:22.600,0:08:26.760 There's one that has a streak of light[br]coming through the door. 0:08:28.620,0:08:32.450 I concluded that's all I had in the world, 0:08:32.450,0:08:34.210 was myself. 0:08:34.210,0:08:38.310 And I am who I am 0:08:38.310,0:08:41.760 because I'm doing what I want to do, 0:08:41.760,0:08:44.240 not what I'm told to do. 0:08:46.400,0:08:51.970 In my dreams, I'm once again with Lee, 0:08:51.970,0:08:53.580 who is long gone. 0:08:55.220,0:08:58.770 And my children are small again, 0:08:58.770,0:09:01.660 and I'm reliving the past. 0:09:03.960,0:09:06.520 [BIRDS CHIRPING] 0:09:10.460,0:09:14.180 Near the Museum of Natural History, 0:09:14.190,0:09:17.880 I remember--across the way, in the park-- 0:09:17.880,0:09:22.320 there were feathers on the ground, of birds. 0:09:23.560,0:09:27.020 Matt and I started collecting these feathers. 0:09:28.050,0:09:29.660 We wore the feathers. 0:09:30.560,0:09:31.920 Put them in our hair. 0:09:33.200,0:09:36.000 We really enjoyed that time in our life. 0:09:47.320,0:09:49.440 We're all on this planet together, 0:09:49.440,0:09:51.870 and we're all related. 0:09:51.870,0:09:56.320 Our closest relative is a tree, 0:09:56.320,0:10:00.920 because they breathe out,[br]and we breathe in. 0:10:01.700,0:10:03.240 --This is it! 0:10:05.220,0:10:09.780 To be in this park with these trees[br]is marvelous. 0:10:12.440,0:10:14.620 It's just the joy of life-- 0:10:15.600,0:10:17.720 the joy of being alive.