Manuel Barreiro (Paparolo) is a young old fighter for the dignity of ceramics in Galicia. Some of his colleagues of today began their contact with clay with him. A muralist who feels close to the poetics of Ulla Viotti and Carlo Zauli, his is also an architectural conception of the mural; the ruined architectures of all times and civilisations, those that show as an emblem the passing of time itself, are the basis of his vocabulary. Paparolo introduces chaos, crazy freedom, as elements of a process of execution which, therefore, creates balanced images.
Alberto González Alegre, 1987, curator and art critic at the Casa da Parra exhibition hall.
Manuel Barreiro (Paparolo) is a young old fighter for the dignity of ceramics in Galicia. Some of his colleagues of today began their contact with clay with him. A muralist who feels close to the poetics of Ulla Viotti and Carlo Zauli, his is also an architectural conception of the mural; the ruined architectures of all times and civilisations, those that show as an emblem the passing of time itself, are the basis of his vocabulary. Paparolo introduces chaos, crazy freedom, as elements of a process of execution which, therefore, creates balanced images.
Alberto González Alegre, 1987, curator and art critic at the Casa da Parra exhibition hall.