GROUPING_UNGROUPING: BREAKS IN REPRESENTATION

Between the advent of Atlántica and the emergence of Pontevedra’s School of Fine Arts, Galicia has witnessed the development of the work of a long list of artists of varying academic backgrounds and with very different aesthetic ideas and conceptual horizons. In this fertile parenthesis, they fought to broaden the horizons of their work in the most adverse of conditions in a kind of no man’s land where they were always hard-pressed to find any signs to guide and direct them. This gave rise to an exciting diversity of projects and names (at last, a lot of them women’s), larger in number if we compare it to the previous generation. This exciting difference shared a common component which was none other than the self-awareness of artistic activity and the uncontrollable contamination of languages. Theirs were ‘breaks in representation.

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