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[Luchita Hurtado: Here I Am]

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[MAN] Oh look, there you are.

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Okay, here we go!

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[HURTADO] Hi!

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Good to see you.

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Here I am!

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[WOMAN] You're royalty!

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[ALL LAUGH]

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[APPLAUSE]

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[WOMAN, OFF SCREEN] Tonight, we celebrate
a historic moment for the Serpentine Galleries.

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We also celebrate
a historic moment for our artist.

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Luchita Hurtado is just one year short
of her one hundredth birthday.

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I think that deserves another round of applause.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Her career has been defined
by such a unique view of the world.

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Messages like, "When it comes to the environment,
there is nowhere to hide."

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[HURTADO] That's right!

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[WOMAN] This is her first solo exhibition--

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in a public institution, in fact.

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And it is also the first time
that we have shown

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over one hundred paintings
by an extraordinary artist,

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who has been named as "Time" magazine's

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one hundred most influential figures of 2019.
[APPLAUSE]

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[John Mullican, Luchita's son]

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[Matt Mullican, Luchita's son]

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[HURTADO] Okay.

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These "Birthing" paintings are fun to do.

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Motherhood is full of wonderful,
wonderful times.

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What you can do with a sky
and a belly button...

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--[INTERVIEWER] How do you feel
about this one?

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--[HURTADO] I like it.

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--I like it.

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This joy that you feel with a new baby,

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this is a joy that
there is no explaining it,

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no talking about it.

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You have to smell it,

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you have to live it,

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to know it.

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--Okay, that's it.

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--Yeah, it's done!

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[LAUGHS]

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The important things are not money.

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The important things are
the animal part of us.

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We live in a very limited world,

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and we're doing away with it
in a very systematic way.

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We should all be concerned.

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I came to America when I was eight years old.

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Before then, I lived in Venezuela--

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the outskirts of Caracas.

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I loved the design on butterfly wings.

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In the tropics, you have these
extraordinary butterflies.

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I would pin them to the wall.

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That pain I inflicted on those poor butterflies,

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I think about today.

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[JACOB SAMUEL] Do you want me to do 
the number here?

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[HURTADO] The numbers, yeah.

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[SAMUEL] So this is going to be
an artist proof.

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I'm just going to put "A.P."

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and then you put your "L.H." over there.

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[Jacob Samuel, Master Printer]

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Okay, we've started.

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We did four aquatints,

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and this is the first one.

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This one is going to the show at
the Serpentine in London.

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And then there will be three
other ones for the gallery.

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It's very exciting for me to
work with Luchita

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because it's living history.

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I've worked with a number of artists
that she knows from her generation...

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[HURTADO] I go back a long time!

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[SAMUEL] So it really
completes the circle for me.

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[HURTADO] The name that I had growing up
was Garcia-Rodriguez.

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That's like being called
"Smith Jones."

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I decided that wasn't right.

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I chose my grandmother
on my mother's side:

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"Hurtado," not "Garcia-Rodriguez."

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In New York, I lived way uptown.

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I chose to go to a high school
that was downtown in the Village.

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My mother thought I was taking
a course in dress design,

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and I wasn't.

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I was doing art.

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Man Ray took that photograph.

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And here, you see, is Lee.

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I married Lee Mullican,
and had two boys,

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John and Matt.

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It takes a great deal of energy,

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having the life of a parent

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and having the life of an artist,

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working and trying to make ends meet.

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My real painting, I could do at night,

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after everybody was asleep.

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[RYAN GOOD, STUDIO DIRECTOR]
I used to work for Matt, for a long time.

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And we knew each other.

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But them coming out here,
we started just to hang out.

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Go to the nursery.

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Go to the farmers market for lunch.

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[HURTADO] And then we became friends

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and really close.

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You discovered me!

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[GOOD] When I first started
finding the works

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from seventy years of her practice,

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I knew right away there was something there.

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With the family asking me
to help out with Lee's estate,

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I started to uncover works
at Lee's old studio,

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most of which were unsigned.

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Maybe only one in twenty
had the marker "L.H."

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She changed her style quite often.

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It's actually an interesting
element of her practice.

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It took maybe a year and a half
or two years

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to be able to find someone
that wanted to do a project.

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Hans Ulrich Obrist came across the work.

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[Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director]

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I remember hearing that he wanted to
have a visit with Luchita.

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It transformed everything
from then there on.

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She's surprised and excited
that all of these things still exist.

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I think she thought many of them were lost.

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She's making new work almost every day,

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so there's new things all the time.

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Her new work is what
she's most passionate about.

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[HURTADO] I'm very sensual.

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I love smells and tastes.

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I love fruit, you see.

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Religion is full of fruit.

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[LAUGHS]

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An apple means more than an apple!

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Those self portraits were
a real surprise to me.

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There's one that has a streak of light
coming through the door.

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I concluded that's all I had in the world,

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was myself.

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And I am who I am

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because I'm doing what I want to do,

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not what I'm told to do.

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In my dreams, I'm once again with Lee,

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who is long gone.

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And my children are small again,

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and I'm reliving the past.

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[BIRDS CHIRPING]

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Near the Museum of Natural History,

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I remember--across the way, in the park--

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there were feathers on the ground, of birds.

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Matt and I started collecting these feathers.

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We wore the feathers.

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Put them in our hair.

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We really enjoyed that time in our life.

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We're all on this planet together,

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and we're all related.

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Our closest relative is a tree,

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because they breathe out,
and we breathe in.

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--This is it!

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To be in this park with these trees
is marvelous.

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It's just the joy of life--

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the joy of being alive.