CONVERSATION ON THE WORK OF ANTÓN LAMAZARES

An extensive and thorough look at the work of Antón Lamazares through his artistic production and his vital odyssey. A journey in time through works born of labour and commitment to the unique practice of wanting to show.

This conversation will enable us to approach his paintings with the purpose of looking back over fifty years of dedication, research and study. Taking advantage of the opportunity his exhibition in the CGAC grants us, we will reflect on the work of one the most unique artists in Galicia and Spain’s artistic context and whose relationship with the world has been ever-present throughout his career.

To tackle the study of fifty years of work from a selection based on the nuclei/series of works produced over the course of those years. To be able to revisit and rediscover, go back to the beginning, shine a light once more on the purpose that inspired that very first moment and make it shine again. The layers of time combine with the paintings and explain them, affording us a renewed observation which, in turn, allows a refined appreciation of the work.

This conversation has been conceived as a complement to an exhibition that reinforces and updates Antón Lamazares’ unique work.

António Gonçalves (Vila Nova de Famalição, Portugal, 1975)

He graduated in Plastic Arts, specialising in Painting, from Porto University’s Fine Arts Faculty, attended classes at Cuenca’s Fine Arts Faculty as part of the Erasmus programme in the 1998-1999 academic year and obtained his PhD in History of Art at Palma de Mallorca’s Universitat de les Illes Balears.

He has developed his career as a painter and curator, and is currently the director of the Museu Nogueira da Silva, which comes under the authority of Braga’s Universidade do Minho. He is also the director of Monção’s house-museum, attached to the same university, and curator of the Ala da Frente gallery in Vila Nova de Famalição. He is a guest lecturer at Porto’s Fine Arts Faculty.

Xosé Luís García Canido (Vigo, Pontevedra, 1967)

A journalist who graduated in Hispanic Philology, García Canido has developed his professional career around two main focal points: communication and cultural management. He has taught classes in Master’s programmes and participated in conferences on Communication and Cultural Management at universities such as Carlos III, Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP), Rey Juan Carlos I, Granada, Barcelona, Complutense de Madrid, New York, etc.

He has also curated or coordinated more than 500 exhibitions, among which feature Detrás do espello (Museo Gaiás), La odisea americana, 1945-1980 (CUNY, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Salamanca’s Centre of Contemporary Art); Egiptología española (National Museum of El Cairo); Arte español 1957-2007 (Palazzo Sant’Elia, Palermo); and artists or writers such as José Lezama Lima, Wifredo Lam or Menchu Lamas.

Bernardo Pinto de Almeida (Peso da Régua, Portugal, 1954)

A full Professor of Art Theory and History at Porto University’s Fine Arts Faculty and a member of the Serralves’ Foundation’s Purchasing Committee between 1990 and 1996, he organised MEIAC’s collection of Portuguese contemporary art. He was the artistic director of the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation, where he founded the Centre for Surrealism Studies and organised exhibitions. He is currently the artistic director of Vila do Conde’s Centro de Estudos Julio/Saul Dias.

As an independent curator, he has been in charge of more than a hundred exhibitions in different Portuguese and Spanish museums and institutions. He has written more than five hundred texts for catalogues both in Portugal and abroad, and has collaborated on specialist magazines such as Lápiz, Arte y Parte, Artforum or Contemporanea, among others.

Further information about the exhibition available at www.cgac.xunta.gal.