The focus of the Week of Spanish Art that ended recently was literature, and it centred on five different activities.
An exhibition by Luis Cernuda, famous Spanish poet, opened the week, which continued with events in which publishing houses that have published works by Spanish Artists participated.
A round table of Spaniards and interested in learning and teaching Spanish took part at a round table at the end of last week. This event was arranged by the Association of Former Students of the Cervantes School, which focused on learning languages as a way of eradicating mutual prejudices among countries. “Which is a good experiment,” Alfredo Martinez, Deputy Head of the Spanish Mission in Bulgaria, told The Echo.
“Francisco Leiro has been regarded as one of the main exponents of Spanish sculpture since the eighties. One of the salient features of his extensive oeuvre is an ongoing dialogue with an expressive tradition in Galicia,” said Felipe Garin Llombart, President of the State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Art Abroad.
One very topical and centric is the show by sculptor Francisco Leiro at the National Gallery for Foreign Art, the second in the Spanish Art Abroad series to visit Sofia. “This an example of how the work performed by this ministry is becoming consolidated and achieving greater prominence on the international art scene,” Ana Palacio, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, was quoted as saying, in a catalogue dedicated to Leiro and circulated in Sofia. “It also marks the incorporation to the project of an artist at the peak of his creative maturity, thereby fulfilling the programme’s aim of tracing the evolution of contemporary Spanish art from the second part of the twentieth century to the present day,” Palacio said adding that the exhibition provides with an insight into Leiro, a sculptor with a sound background in woodworking - though this is not the only technique he uses-and a profound knowledge of Galician vernacular traditions, whose oeuvre is both personal and is tune with international trends.
Leiro is an emotional and intuitive artist with a latent reflexive analytical vein that makes him instinctively keep his distance from and be wary of everything other than work and discipline in art, according to the catalogue. His Galician background laid the foundations of a career attuned to the problems of the human condition and its symbols and spectres.
Sculpture is a natural part of his family environment, they told as a child, he would model figures out of dough at his maternal grandparents’ bakery - a memory that his sculpture Rapaz do Pan (1984) appears to convey in a mythical manner.
An exhibition by Luis Cernuda, famous Spanish poet, opened the week, which continued with events in which publishing houses that have published works by Spanish Artists participated.
A round table of Spaniards and interested in learning and teaching Spanish took part at a round table at the end of last week. This event was arranged by the Association of Former Students of the Cervantes School, which focused on learning languages as a way of eradicating mutual prejudices among countries. “Which is a good experiment,” Alfredo Martinez, Deputy Head of the Spanish Mission in Bulgaria, told The Echo.
“Francisco Leiro has been regarded as one of the main exponents of Spanish sculpture since the eighties. One of the salient features of his extensive oeuvre is an ongoing dialogue with an expressive tradition in Galicia,” said Felipe Garin Llombart, President of the State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Art Abroad.
One very topical and centric is the show by sculptor Francisco Leiro at the National Gallery for Foreign Art, the second in the Spanish Art Abroad series to visit Sofia. “This an example of how the work performed by this ministry is becoming consolidated and achieving greater prominence on the international art scene,” Ana Palacio, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, was quoted as saying, in a catalogue dedicated to Leiro and circulated in Sofia. “It also marks the incorporation to the project of an artist at the peak of his creative maturity, thereby fulfilling the programme’s aim of tracing the evolution of contemporary Spanish art from the second part of the twentieth century to the present day,” Palacio said adding that the exhibition provides with an insight into Leiro, a sculptor with a sound background in woodworking - though this is not the only technique he uses-and a profound knowledge of Galician vernacular traditions, whose oeuvre is both personal and is tune with international trends.
Leiro is an emotional and intuitive artist with a latent reflexive analytical vein that makes him instinctively keep his distance from and be wary of everything other than work and discipline in art, according to the catalogue. His Galician background laid the foundations of a career attuned to the problems of the human condition and its symbols and spectres.
Sculpture is a natural part of his family environment, they told as a child, he would model figures out of dough at his maternal grandparents’ bakery - a memory that his sculpture Rapaz do Pan (1984) appears to convey in a mythical manner.
