Nexus VI - Ourense, Galicia, España
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N 42° 20.604 W 007° 52.329
29T E 592902 N 4688520
The sculpture is already installed in Ourense
Waymark Code: WM133TP
Location: Galicia, Spain
Date Posted: 09/09/2020
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A Xosé Lois Carrera, the young but veteran painter, draftsman, sculptor and graphic humorist from A Limia, finally installs his announced sculpture Nexus VI in the Os Remedios roundabout. This imposing work of art measures seven meters high, counting its base, four. It weighs, on the other hand, approximately thirty tons. Finally, there is a large male torso tilted on its axis, with the right arm hidden behind the back and the left extended as if unconsciously stretching in the dream. It represents the river Miño, as it passes through Ourense. Its material is granite, that stone that emerges in more than fifty percent of the Galician territorial surface and turns the ornamental stonework into the authentic Galician folk art recognized throughout the world. A couplet says it with good reason: «Canteiriño, pica and sing ¿». The word nexus -nexus in the classical Latin language, meaning knot- means instead, according to the Spanish dictionary, union or link and, according to Galician, also connection and link. Carrera wants to represent both the Miño river as it passes through Ourense, as well as the union of its two banks or banks; this is, in short, the connection that exists between old Ourense and the unique neighborhood of A Ponte.Carrera granite has surely deliberately chosen a material that occurs in large blocks in Galicia itself, which is not classified among the so-called noble materials -such as marble or bronze- and which with its hardness can well stand up to the centuries and even millennia. Apart from the fact that, certainly, the most suitable material for monumental sculpture - and this one is - was always granite. Thus, Carrera undoubtedly feels himself to be the legitimate heir to Romanesque and Baroque art: at least, of the Galician Baroque, which cut stone as if it were butter and filled all the crossroads of Galician land with cruises. Deep down, Carrera, while still being current, is a classic.
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