Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea (CGAC) presents Fernando Casas the now is over and the before is yet to come on view 26 October 2012–10 February 2013.
Fernando Casas: the now is over and the before is yet to come. Exhibition view. Photo: Mark Ritchie
Observation, compilation, indexation, discovery, re-creation. In an oeuvre marked by silent gestures, Fernando Casás (b. 1946; Gondomar, Pontevedra, Spain) 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 galleries of the CGAC.
Curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez
Centro Galego De Arte
Contemporánea (CGAC)
Ramón del Valle Inclán s/n
15704 Santiago de Compostela
www.cgac.org