The name of Libertido was born from a pedagogical meeting between initial level teachers in a seminar on art and awareness for the initial world. The name arose as a proposal from the teachers for the artist to design a new character and thus a new work of art emerges.
Thus, it was how the artist began to sketch and think of someone who is “free and fun” (libre y divertido) that would arrive to the classroom in a simple way. Gonzalo chose the rhea, because it is a native and ancestral species of South America.
“The rhea is the largest bird on the south american continent. This was hunted by man from the beginning. That is why it is so important, in current education, to use art as a means to talk about awareness, history, geography and ancient customs. Achieving the valuation of all animal species is essential for a paradigm shift, because there is a lot of inequality and we must be able to reverse it as soon as possible.”
“Education, at all levels, needs very profound changes in terms of forms of communication, in values and in curricular content. It is very important to me that adults and peers in schools respect each other. In the classrooms, emotional education is very necessary” affirms Gonzalo.