Cette obscure clarté: Leopoldo Novoa | Helen Vergouwen. Longjumeau-Champlan. France. May 2015.
Leopoldo Novoa’s work can be seen from Thursday November 20 at the Routes Gallery in Paris (France), in the context of a group exhibition titled ‘Talismans’. The exhibition features more than 100 small works made by 40 artists between 1950 and 2014. The exhibition will run until next January 17.
On Thursday September 18 is opened in the Art Gallery Clérigos, in Lugo, an exhibition of Leopoldo Nóvoa which brings together some of his most outstanding paintings. The exhibition will be open until 4 November.
Three works by Leopoldo Novoa can be seen in the exhibition Abanca art collection in the building of the Plaza de Cervantes in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. Hours are Tuesday to Sunday from 17h to 21h. Until September 30, 2014. http://coleccion.abanca.com/es/
Text published in the series ‘Gallegos on the stairs’ in El País One of the best artistic interventions ever carried out in a public space in this country is the unfinished Mural da Canteira, which Leopoldo Nóvoa painted in A Coruña towards the end of the 1980s. The painting has been damaged by time and […]
Extract ‘Leopoldo Nòvoa. Memorial’. Catalogue Circulo de Bellas Artes. Madrid, 2003 …In 1979, a fire destroyed his workshop on the rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine. This is what we find in Nòvoa’s biographies. This is no anecdote. Nòvoa’s later creations could not be understood without knowing this. Much of his work disappeared in the fire […]
Extract ‘The material exercises of Nòvoa’. Cimaises, Arts Actuels. N° 214. Septembre/Octobre 1991. Paris. Nòvoa is a celt of the two banks of the Atlantic, since he lived the first part of his life in Uruguay. And in his youth he was a horseman of the llanuras between sky and heaven “were distances call out […]
Extract ‘On other uses of hemp’. Territorios. Siglo XX Edition. Mexico, 1978. …Amongst the many magical properties of string is that of changing name simply by crossing the Atlantic: in Spain it is called “cordel”, and in Montevideo and Buenos Aires “piolin”. Protagonist or mediator of countless metamorphoses – in its name, its drawings, its […]
Extract text was first published in the catalogue of the exhibition ‘Leopoldo Novoa’, 1973, at the Ulster Museum, Belfast …In an art-period when one is visually jostled from all sides by conceptual recipes for paintings framed and hung on gallery walls as actual paintings, by melodramatic “neo-realist” representations, or by a violence of real or […]
