‘This is Isaac’s glances’, the first major exhibition on Díaz Pardo after his death in 2012, can be seen from today in the exhibition hall of Founding in the Canton. Curated by her two sons, Xosé and Camilo Díaz Arias de Castro It is a journey through his life and his work and his contributions to the history of Galicia, Sargadelos, the Laboratory of Forms, Ediciós do Castro, the Galician Information Institute or the Carlos Maside Museum of Contemporary Art.
The sample has more than 500 works of art, ceramics, photographs, publications, murals, audiovisuals and personal objects and it was inaugurated last year in the City of Culture. It is made up of ten sections, the first about his father –Camilo Díaz Baliño– and his influence on Isaac; childhood and youth and their involvement in the campaign in favor of the 1936 Statute of Autonomy of Galicia; the painter facet; his contact with exile and his commitment to the recovery of historical memory; work as a writer; entrepreneurial business initiatives; cultural and research initiatives; the industrial designer; the editor; and finally the recuperator –with Luis Seoane– of the artistic avant-garde prior to the Civil War, with the launch of the Carlos Maside Galician Museum of Contemporary Art.
The exhibition allows you to take a tour around the life of one of the most important figures in contemporary Galicia who contributed to recovering its history and advancing from pride and self-knowledge.
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