public sculpture in A Coruña. Neighbours stone
coruñeses rulers periodically expand the sculpture park of the city of A Coruña, harshly criticized by a committee of specialists of Galician Culture Council. 07/14/2008
(Although this date appears in this newspaper, the report is 2000)
ANA RODRÍGUEZ. A CORUÑA. No child without a toy, no roundabout without a statue. Periodically, the institutions feel the need to launch an unwelcome guest who moves to town with better or worse or urban aesthetic. Furnish, embellish, dialogue with the city, to urban limbo entity, to humanize the areas of relationships ... be some of the qualities that a local government should be required as Coruna any author who will transform any space with a work publicly. Does it? The Galician Culture Council suspends the management carried out in this regard, the Palacio de María Pita. The statue of the heroine speaks, and not very well, a report of this advisory body Advisory and Xunta. A public art Espazos us is a paper prepared by the Section of Fine Arts and coordinated by Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Maria Luisa Sobrino Manzanares. The document criticizes "the anachronistic presence" of the monument of Jose Maria Pita Castiñeiras in the square that bears his name: "It has all the figurative and allegorical rhetoric of nineteenth-century monument, pedestal, open fire, heroically, and is dressed in a language not unlike the Franco dictatorship erected by the dead in the War. " Also be heard screeching to "clone warrior Botero ubiquitous" located in the entrance of the Domus and fourteen sculptors of all the Garden of Hercules, "competing with the Tower", is situated along the promenade of A Coruña. "Save the Forest of Peace Manolo menhirs, (see photograph below) continues the paper," the sculpture garden is the first example of the disastrous decor is done in other promenades of the province ". The Galician Culture Council states that the project "seems aesthetically second campaign conducted by the Mayor Francisco Vázquez in the city" with the location of sculptures dedicated to "anecdotal issues along of its streets or squares, the Catalinas, the surfers, the wristwatch As Lagoas ... "A Coruña not the only target of the specialists of the institution. In general, they complain that" lack of discretion "which" often chairing the sculptural programs in Galicia. "exceptions, are little more than an epidermal phenomenon and decorative," he continues, "that crop as unfavorable ratings as the monotony of monotony, ugliness for ugliness, when it is not openly defined kitsch ". Understands Professor Maria Luisa Sobrino that public art is an instrument for politicians and bureaucrats use depending on their interests," tending to promote indiscriminately works, most of the time, quite deplorable. "Unaware of the severity, the value and legitimacy of contemporary work," says the professor, who also signed studies and contemporary sculpture in the city and urban space and public sculpture , monuments, intentions iconographic and plastic presence. notes that the local government in the last decade Coruña should feel alluded to when alleges that municipalities need to "crown almost necessarily their roundabouts decorated with a sculpture or works promenades following decisions and taste-person ", and are responsible for arbitrarily to any artist," having the area of \u200b\u200bthe city as if it were their private space. "Although A Coruna takes the cake, there are other cities that also do very well stop the report. Vigo and Soto Mayor's team at the end of the eighties are a good review. Among the rejections, the source of the horses in the Plaza of Spain and Ramon Conde Mariñeiro, that "leaving aside his excessive investment, carries an aesthetic worthy of the best times of fascism". The monument inevitable crossroads Lalín or the Monte do Gozo in Santiago are also examples "of this arbitrary decorative furnishings" in Galicia. The study team of specialists from the Galician Culture Council assumes that there is a face to the cross, though exceptionally. Verbi gratia, the action in the park of Santiago Bonaval Vigo or two pieces: the Porta do Atlantic, Silverio Rivas - "a work that acts as a planning and urban significance and gives the square of identification and cohesion" - and the Sirens, Francisco Leiro, in the narrow space of the Puerta del Sol - "trivializes the convention of the rhetoric of the monumental" -. In A Coruña, except the Forest of Peace Manolo menhirs, nothing but nothing, to be saved in the analysis of the regional entity. conclude that public art is a genre "as well intentioned as discredited", but it is difficult that he deems necessary "to the flood of artsy achievements of all invading the cities." The specialists come to a recommendation not to continue making mistakes, they move to all administrations, including the Council of A Coruña, leaving the selection, not a "personal taste", but a committee of experts and professionals in the art , politics, architecture, sociology, cultural promotion and planning.
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coruñeses rulers periodically expand the sculpture park of the city of A Coruña, harshly criticized by a committee of specialists of Galician Culture Council. 07/14/2008
(Although this date appears in this newspaper, the report is 2000)
ANA RODRÍGUEZ. A CORUÑA. No child without a toy, no roundabout without a statue. Periodically, the institutions feel the need to launch an unwelcome guest who moves to town with better or worse or urban aesthetic. Furnish, embellish, dialogue with the city, to urban limbo entity, to humanize the areas of relationships ... be some of the qualities that a local government should be required as Coruna any author who will transform any space with a work publicly. Does it? The Galician Culture Council suspends the management carried out in this regard, the Palacio de María Pita. The statue of the heroine speaks, and not very well, a report of this advisory body Advisory and Xunta. A public art Espazos us is a paper prepared by the Section of Fine Arts and coordinated by Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Maria Luisa Sobrino Manzanares. The document criticizes "the anachronistic presence" of the monument of Jose Maria Pita Castiñeiras in the square that bears his name: "It has all the figurative and allegorical rhetoric of nineteenth-century monument, pedestal, open fire, heroically, and is dressed in a language not unlike the Franco dictatorship erected by the dead in the War. " Also be heard screeching to "clone warrior Botero ubiquitous" located in the entrance of the Domus and fourteen sculptors of all the Garden of Hercules, "competing with the Tower", is situated along the promenade of A Coruña. "Save the Forest of Peace Manolo menhirs, (see photograph below) continues the paper," the sculpture garden is the first example of the disastrous decor is done in other promenades of the province ". The Galician Culture Council states that the project "seems aesthetically second campaign conducted by the Mayor Francisco Vázquez in the city" with the location of sculptures dedicated to "anecdotal issues along of its streets or squares, the Catalinas, the surfers, the wristwatch As Lagoas ... "A Coruña not the only target of the specialists of the institution. In general, they complain that" lack of discretion "which" often chairing the sculptural programs in Galicia. "exceptions, are little more than an epidermal phenomenon and decorative," he continues, "that crop as unfavorable ratings as the monotony of monotony, ugliness for ugliness, when it is not openly defined kitsch ". Understands Professor Maria Luisa Sobrino that public art is an instrument for politicians and bureaucrats use depending on their interests," tending to promote indiscriminately works, most of the time, quite deplorable. "Unaware of the severity, the value and legitimacy of contemporary work," says the professor, who also signed studies and contemporary sculpture in the city and urban space and public sculpture , monuments, intentions iconographic and plastic presence. notes that the local government in the last decade Coruña should feel alluded to when alleges that municipalities need to "crown almost necessarily their roundabouts decorated with a sculpture or works promenades following decisions and taste-person ", and are responsible for arbitrarily to any artist," having the area of \u200b\u200bthe city as if it were their private space. "Although A Coruna takes the cake, there are other cities that also do very well stop the report. Vigo and Soto Mayor's team at the end of the eighties are a good review. Among the rejections, the source of the horses in the Plaza of Spain and Ramon Conde Mariñeiro, that "leaving aside his excessive investment, carries an aesthetic worthy of the best times of fascism". The monument inevitable crossroads Lalín or the Monte do Gozo in Santiago are also examples "of this arbitrary decorative furnishings" in Galicia. The study team of specialists from the Galician Culture Council assumes that there is a face to the cross, though exceptionally. Verbi gratia, the action in the park of Santiago Bonaval Vigo or two pieces: the Porta do Atlantic, Silverio Rivas - "a work that acts as a planning and urban significance and gives the square of identification and cohesion" - and the Sirens, Francisco Leiro, in the narrow space of the Puerta del Sol - "trivializes the convention of the rhetoric of the monumental" -. In A Coruña, except the Forest of Peace Manolo menhirs, nothing but nothing, to be saved in the analysis of the regional entity. conclude that public art is a genre "as well intentioned as discredited", but it is difficult that he deems necessary "to the flood of artsy achievements of all invading the cities." The specialists come to a recommendation not to continue making mistakes, they move to all administrations, including the Council of A Coruña, leaving the selection, not a "personal taste", but a committee of experts and professionals in the art , politics, architecture, sociology, cultural promotion and planning.
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MANOLO PEACE, A BEAUTIFUL WORK OF 1995
Manolo Paz, born 1957, lives and works in Cambados.
striking is the interesting arrangement of the holes in the stones.
