Lalín is land of artists and Art lovers. It is obvious in its streets. A good way of crossing Lalin village is discovering its sculptures. Some of them have turned into symbols of the municipality, as the dedicated one to Loriga, the aviator, or the statue of the pork.
Some of them monumental, different and discreet another ones...figuratives or abstracts, all of them have a history behind...make up your mind and come to discover it!
Sometimes Acisclo spoke that he admired Greek sculptures and “Pórtico de La Gloria” sculptures (Gloria doorway´s sculptures); maybe for this reason almost all his works are in high place, as Deza Venus, raised on a cylindrical mainstay made of concrete.
Acisclo reduces human body until abstract showing a feminine torso with wavy shapes. With the treatment of bronze he makes the stylized figure of the goddess with soft curves.
The sculptor use convexity and works with different slides of oxide bathing the piece in shades of colour. Behind, a figure of an owl appears, with lighter colour and a different treatment, deliberately much more figurative.
From middle of the 60, feminine torso covered with tunics turns into one of the topics of Acisclo's work. Once again, the artist develops one of the favourite topics of his iconographic list: images extracted from classical and Hellenistic world.
Curiously, peoples of Lalín call this piece as " Cod slice ".
(Translated text, from the original by Alicia Fernández Dapena)
