Image: Galicia Contemporary Art Center, Santiago de Compostela
The Galicia Contemporary Art Center in Santiago de Compostela is presenting 'Illa Ignorada', an exhibition centered on collages by Fina Mantiñán made in 1965. According to the center’s announcement, the works translate the artist’s “vital concerns” onto paper through an abstract language that also engages with everyday life.
The museum’s note points to several titles from the series, including 'La rueda', 'El soporte' and 'Composición con jarrones'. Taken together, these works suggest a body of collage practice in which abstraction and the domestic or familiar are kept in active conversation rather than separated into distinct registers.
CGAC’s brief post does not provide a full curatorial statement, but it does frame the show as a way of discovering Mantiñán’s collages through this group of works from 1965. The emphasis on paper, abstraction and the dialogue with the quotidian places the exhibition within a broader interest in how modern artists turned simple materials and visual structures into vehicles for personal reflection.
Mantiñán is the focus of the presentation, though the source text does not add biographical detail or describe the larger arc of her career. What is verified here is the concentration on a specific moment in 1965, when she produced collages whose titles suggest both formal experimentation and references to ordinary objects or structures.
The announcement appeared on CGAC’s social media with the invitation to “discover” 'Illa ignorada' at the center. No additional exhibition dates, curatorial credits or companion programming were included in the source material provided, so the show’s framing is limited to the information released by the museum.
CGAC, the Galician contemporary art museum based in Santiago de Compostela, regularly uses its channels to draw attention to exhibitions and collection-related presentations. In this case, its message singles out a compact group of works by Mantiñán and the way they move between abstract composition and the language of the everyday, with titles such as 'La rueda', 'El soporte' and 'Composición con jarrones'.
