Observation, compilation, indexation, discovery, re-creation. In an oeuvre marked by silent gestures, Fernando Casás (Gondomar, Pontevedra, Spain, 1946) has maintained a constant relationship of curiosity vis-à-vis nature. The traces left by the passing of time, endlessly mutating entropic states and forms, encountered in the depths of the tropical forest or in the lush Galician countryside, are the determining factors in a creative journey spanning more than forty years. From Brazil, where he started his career as an artist, and Galicia, the region of his birth, this retrospective exhibition showcases an oeuvre born of a unique thoughtful and conceptual resolve, which can just as easily reveal itself in painting or sculpture as it can in ephemeral actions or specific interventions, such as the recently created works conceived for the exhibition spaces of the CGAC.
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In the same way as cinema or the press, pop and rock music could not escape the censoring action of the Franco regime. But in contrast to the first, the repression became harsher with regards to the latter just when the regime was starting to cautiously open up. The authorities were aware of the role that music had played in the international revolts of the sixties and tried to limit its influence in a Spain that was becoming more and more developed and cosmopolitan.