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 […]
En un día como hoy una noticia sobresaltaba al mundo del arte en Galicia, el fallecimiento de Leopoldo Nóvoa, uno de sus grandes patriarcas y figura referencial. Dejaba así en estado de shock a un sector que desde hace muchos años entendía la importancia y consideración de su obra. Hoy, un año después, su memoria […]
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