Xondo (Manuel Iglesias Otero). Born in 1953 in Xondo-Tour, Corua. Participates in the ten years in a drawing competition organized in Vigo by a savings and, at seventeen, he moved to Barcelona. The artistic landscape of this city, bound to small French towns stays in Madrid and in Figueras, make your vocation as a painter. AFTER a long walk artistic, organized a successful show of his work in Girona, exposicinpblica remembered as the first series of his career. On it they turn their attention all the media in the city, recording a number of criticisms that can be summarized as: Marta Duy JVG: "His work demonstrates its great creativity in very different styles and demanding. It shows us the basis of academic training with a serious depth and aware of who knows what art is primarily the work. " Refer also to his prodigious gifts as a draftsman, and sealed in the works on display detects an intention to leave the figuracin to derive a subjective paint, somewhere between idealism and imagination to create new visual forms in which the power of color is pervasive, and terminal nan peifecto ensuring a connoisseur of the intricacies of the artistic world, with a horizon large enough to explain his painting quy porqude mainly the well-made, carefully prepared, and a projection that seems peifecta horizons and opens up interesting perspectives on our own painting. Years later, will write Carmen Simn: "In all his works are the human essence of freedom, without action or coercion, despite being caught in the reality. Human beings make their weakness Xondo a protector of their own creation. Symbolizes with authentic banknotes - unprecedented, certainly in the history of painting-the material world united by a Cordon umbilical invisible spiritual world, recreated travs maternity or Christianity. "Daz and Corral" Xondo's work is conceived as a look at the freedom of human beings. Each observer covert Veren the different realities, the result of the artist's experience and his imagination, a moment of your life. The interpretaciny the valoracinslo may be contemplating the total AFTER the work, slowly and gently. "These last words also portray the current Xondo, which states that an or the most beautiful ideas deserve respect if you enslave the individual what msmnimo, and that his work is the manifesto of smismo. Synthesizes PERIOD chronological first in a book entitled "Seniors" , a superb drawing. This work sersubastada ms Durn room late at Madrid, where the author only has thirty years. This event, together with other works catalogarposteriormente Durn the same room, the room Berkowitsch, etc., Xondo remembers him as "almost nothing!" To see your name printed with Rivera, Spades so, Dal, Goya .... Alterna new exhibitions in Barcelona and province with a slight stays in Madrid, which used to better study the techniques of the Baroque and the Impressionists. Run the year 1984. In the Liceo de Ourense made the first of a long series' of exhibitions in the provinces of Galicia. This time exhibits a mixed package of techniques - with authentic banknotes, use two for the first time as part of the composition. These works symbolize the material concerns in fusion with the spiritual. Alvarez wrote, "where a drawing based on the symbolism and abstraction reminiscent of the early masters of the abstract." This production generuna polmicas series and incidents, whose story we'll book for a long biografams. This same year he moved to Madrid with the purpose of knowing until last secret techniques of Velquez saved. Imposed economic problems again (for a living, sometimes resorts to portrait) the realization of some portraits, this time to famous artists of the show, Ascom maragato people studying for then paint on canvases of great size, but with free execution. This commission was for D. Evaristo Garcia, whose new administrative headquarters inaugurarn the Kings of Spain, owners and, for some months, a picture of our now famous artist, famous, that s, only in some c l circles in which he should be serious. Xondo defines fame as "a fever that inevitably ends up catching a sniff all its territory." For a time, a good number of ambassadors and senior officials absorb some of his work, thus propicindole its distribution by numerous passes, while giving you exhibition platforms in many capitals world. In 1986, notes in his painting an outcrop of rigid forms, reflecting the burden that produces the urban dynamism. Quickly remedied this evil Moving to The Corua to build with his own hands, and without any experience, the house now inhabited workshop, located on a mountain in Malpica. Between 1986 and 1996 created a work pletrica, surreal, full of symbolism and romanticism, with a delightful spot. Are titles of the stage: "Elements", "Xogo ladies," "Shipwreck," "Tempestna Costa da Morte", "Gaviotas", "Marcha do Xantar", "No Ark," "Rapture "," Galicia "," Adny their Evas "," Fruits of aqupara eternity, "" Creation of Eve "and many more. which occupy several volumes analysis. This production is exhibipblicamente in several cities in Galicia and in London, and private exhibitions in Spanish cities and several countries in Europe. Since a few years ago on a lonely process of evolution, a purely xondiana configured with an innovative style impulsive and vibrant, which works convertirsus new art paradigm. For his characters, the author chooses to register as "Desnaturalismo" as its protagonists reflect the metamorphosis or in some cases, the extinction that doomed estn animal beings, due to the action of predators dor king, who is the man. Observndola, we are alone with a new visual world created by l, in which no or few apriorsticos ideal models to imitate. The artist exceeds his work, as ahsu greatness and genius. It is remarkable how firmly running without previous drawing, chained and overlapping curves, weaving a kind of beings cibernticos, metallic and human at the same time, as if to show a portrait of the man of the future, us chromaticism ndo no concessions to the merely pretty, but it shows his skills as a colorist, with a stain-free and precise, and perfect trial illustrator. His brilliant creations he found his own self in the introspeccin of his soul, which, like a mirror, it reflects part of the universal soul of all men and behaviors that generate the passions which it related. T his one's own work is a tremendous artist inventor, modern and timeless, passionate, moody, intimate, different genius, overwhelming personality, artist reference to start without more divestitures plastic discourse on modernity. In the field of literature, escribiun humorous essay, and poetry. The Atlantic to the Pacific, during a tour of exhibitions and Settings, the main galleries and museums of contemporary art in the world, Ascom the Instituto Cervantes in some cities Xondo receive this book and some works of their harvest for their libraries and galleries.