Chichi Campos, an irreverent and dedicated view of Galicia for two years in the seventies and eighties

The Luis Seoane Foundation opened or held the first retrospective after 30 years on the work of graphic humorist Xesús Campos Álvarez (La Laguna, Tenerife, 1952-Compostela, 1991), better known as Chichi Campos. or project Jesus! 70 years of Campos It brings together more than three hundred works that show an irreverent — and dedicated — view of his time that offers a portrait of Galicia spanning two years, the seventies and the eighties. A pace that didn’t all seem possible, but not that or disappointment also followed. Chichi Campos, with her cool vision of humor and sharply decorative character, reflects political, historical and social events in debuxes and cartoons that have exhausted her fine culture and critical lucidity that, the sources of the Foundation note, she strongly advocated for the worlds hoxa. Identified as a communist co-ideology, the first indicator of Chichi Campos’ modernity was his “ability to laugh at himself and the certainty that nothing deserves to be taken seriously, neither politics, nor institutionalized culture, nor fashion… The universe of seua that he uses as a tool for fuxir dunha realidade mais ben amarga». He tried to explain, because of his talent for portraiture, as a painter and friend of José Luis Alvite, years after his departure: «They justify the crushing of ideology or trend. Chichi Campos could not be classified. He was a guy on fire, indomitable, an irresistible explosion of ideas. It didn’t look like anyone. Chichi Campos is the denomination of origin».

Photos, objects, drawings, comics, magazines, artists’ books, blueprints, scripts, various papers make up a retrospective curated by his son Nico Campos, a project that represents “the author who, despite his premature disappearance, left the inn stuck in Galician culture through his caricatures , two content that he wrote for the newly created regional television, two exhibitions in which he participated and people who collaborated or who stood in his way on his short but intense path.

Complete exhibition with documentary film Chichi e mais eu, and not for Nico to develop a portrait of his father through interviews with friends, colleagues and relatives. The foundation will also edit a publication that will feature Chichi’s unpublished works (scripts, drawings, texts and also a bestiary of national politics from the late 1980s) belonging to the Chichi Campos Documentary Fund.