This iron and steel silhouette represents two writers and the honoured artist, looking in the same direction with different hats depicted in the photo. We are close Eucalypt of lovers.
"Sculpture
Chronology
2021
Author
Soledad Penalty
History
Linked to the Galician cultural vanguards of the 20s and 30s of the 20th century, Carlos Maside opened a studio in Santiago in 1932 and maintained a deep relationship with the city throughout his life, reflecting in his work a thousand and one prints and characters of that Compostela. He was a facilitator and member of all kinds of artistic, cultural and even political initiatives and for that he was retaliated after the coup d'état of 1936. From then on he lived in Santiago in a kind of internal exile that made both his professional and artistic life difficult; however, he kept open the channels of communication with Galicia from the external exile (especially with Luís Seoane) and served as a bridge with the intellectuals of the new generations, such as Uxío Novoneyra, Manuel María, Ventura Cores or his nephew, Julio Maside. This work and its location in a space as distinguished as the Alameda honors the valuable contribution of this intellectual to the city and Galicia.
Soledad Penalta is an artist recognized for her work in steel or iron, such as the case He uses these materials to sculpt the empty space itself, extracting from it the shapes we recognize and giving them a certain monumentality and a dynamism that comes from these games and contrasts between the solid and the empty. There are several of his pieces in the city's parks, his intervention being particularly popular for the recovery of the old Conxo cross, today at the confluence of Sánchez Freire and García Prieto streets.
DEATH OF CARLOS MASIDE
CAN the man die?
Where is Compostela now?
I don't know how to think of you dead.
I open the window
and look at the saw for you. . .
1958.
Uxío Novoneyra
Description
A photo from 1952, set in this same Alameda de Compostela, portrays the characters of this sculpture: Uxío Novoneyra and Manuel María accompanying the painter Carlos Maside (1897-1958). Two young men united by the circumstances of the times - doing compulsory military service - and a third marked by a wider and more complex life trajectory of cultural and political engagement in a dark time. The voice of Generation Nós and that of Galicia that dreamed of another future, giving the relief to the intellectuals who would revive their legacy to bring it to the present day.
The piece, from the sculpture Soledad Penalta, represents the three artists on a lively walk through Ferradura on one of those late summer days, when the trees and the coolness of the park invite you to get together and let yourself be carried away by the conversation."
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