14 December 2007 – 24 February 2008

LODEIRO

Xosé Telmo Lodeiro (Vigo, Spain, 1930-1996), without the insignias of belonging to any style or school, exemplifies the individual artist’s finding of his place within the community that he interprets. His pictorial work, which defined one of the pinnacles of Galician art in the second half of the twentieth century, cannot be understood without the social, geographical and human clamour found in essentially romantic artists.

In his public life, he was an activist, in social, political and other spheres, who took part in any collective projects aimed at bringing art and life together, to popularise and socialise art. He took part in the proposals of the Estampa Popular, and in the outdoor shows of the Praza da Princesa, and was a member of the Atlántica group in the eighties.

As a painter he hoped to achieve the harmony between art and the world, by means of feeling and ofthe symbolic power of forms, mostly through landscapes, but without rejecting the expressive strength of the human form, combining the two on numerous occasions. With most of his work, it is worth noting a technical- procedural feature. Lodeiro painted on canvas by mixing his oil paints with ground stone, Pedramol, which results in painstaking preparation of the paste with its shades of uniform colours, and also in the slow application of the pigments on the canvas.

Lodeiro used to work long hours in his studio, in a way which was somewhat similar to an industrial assembly line. This working pace, in terms of the reasons which produced it, goes well beyond mere technical issues, and the slowness in obtaining textures, to the extent that it can even provide a partial explanation of his formal creation process and of the definition of his iconographic repertoire: the symbolic use of light and the technique used for the application of each colour, ordered by tonal range. His light is always tenacious.

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Sunday
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