“Xente Nosa”. Program by Xosé M. García Palmeiro. An interview with artist Manuel Colmeiro ©CRTVE 1987

MARCO presents a series of historical interviews with the artist Manuel Colmeiro online. These are conceived as a complementary activity to the exhibition “MANUEL COLMEIRO. Spaces and Framings”.

The second of the interviews, from the archives of CRTVG, was conducted in 1987 and is available as of today, April 24.#MARCOathome #Istayathome

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 “Xente Nosa”, 1987
Interview with Manuel Colmeiro on set

Directed and conducted by: Xosé M. García Palmeiro

Camera operators: Antonio Pensado, José Ángel Fernández, Xoán Cuesta. Camera control: Xavier Fernández. Lighting: Alberto Medeiros. Sound: Pepe Mato, Manuel Videira. Set decorations: Manuel León, Xoán Gómez, Manuel Muíños. Settings: B. Saa Rojo, A. Santos Zas. Makeup: Geli Lorenzo. Public relations: Eva Gabeiras. Electronic graphics: Ramón Teijelo. Production: Casilda Piñeyro. Production assistant: Tonio Caeiro, Pablo X. González. VTR: Les Villaverde. Realization: Rubén G. Loureda.

Duration: 33'26''
© Televisión de Galicia SA, 1987

Interviews with artist Manuel Colmeiro
Complementary activity of the exhibition “Manuel Colmeiro. Spaces and Framings”

With the collaboration of: RTVE, CRTVG 

During the exhibition 'Manuel Colmeiro. Spaces and Framings’, curated by Xosé Carlos López Bernárdez, a set of parallel and complementary activities is planned. Bernardez’s fresh eye on the work by one of the key painters in the history of Galician art.

http://www.marcovigo.com/es/content/manuel-colmeiro-espacios-y-encuadlaciones

Borrowed from the archives of CRTVG and CRTVE, several interviews with Manuel Colmeiro have been periodically published on the museum's website beginning Wednesday, April 15. Thanks to this special collaboration, our audience has direct access to Colmeiro's work and thoughts.

Not only are they of high interest as historical documents, but also for the fact that they provide the artist's perspective and thoughts at three different moments in his life and artistic career. The painter's own documents outline his work in the political tradition of historical realism and explain the social and aesthetic motivations of the pieces. His testimony helps understand those works with a clear social nuance or the series of inks on the Civil War.

Colmeiro's thoughts also explain his search for a new classicism linked to everyday life. In his own words, “My job as a painter repeatedly displays the common thing —the miracle of existence, its unbroken duration”: maternities, bakers, the three graces, landscapes, still lifes; topics are shown from a rigorous analysis that might seem naive because it shows the modest virtues or typical facts of local life; yet loaded with a strong analytical burden.