Friends of the Galician Museums award the Pedra do Destino 2023 award to humorist Siro

The collective Amigos dos Museos de Galicia celebrates this May 18 as International Museum Day, which, by the way, has been happening since the foundation of the event in 1977 by ICOM (International Council of Museums). So he organized a meeting in A Coruña, in the Portas Ártabras cultural space, where museologist Felipe Senén praised museums as a fundamental complement to education, moreover, he said, they are a clear indicator of the real cultural level of the community. .

In the second part of this act, the association must know the name of the deserving figure of the Pedro do Destino Award 2023, which is awarded every year to those people or groups interested in aspects related to the heritage or cultural normalization of Galicia. From this round, the board of directors of Amigos dos Museos agreed to award the prize to the graphic humorist Sir López, siro, nomade in Ferrol in 1943, for a relevant contribution to Espallar or Galician humor. Or his work encompasses many aspects, from radio — it was more successful than his program on RadioVoz Run, Carmela, what a man— going through his caricatures in La Voz de Galicia and his caricatures, as well as his aspect as a painter and his essayistic studies on Castelao or humor in Galicia, or on quixoticamong many other aspects.

The Pedro do Destino 2023 award includes the publication of the author’s book under the title For fucking death. absent user, and not for the debutant and writer to look back at the holy company of celebrities, including the deceased, that he has known for the last two decades. Siro López — who received the Ehmu Fugas no Encontro Mundial de Humorism award just a few days ago — was the faulo of this dramatic book in which those present could become role models. In this volume, Siro presents Morte as a prostitute because he understands her as a simple “job” entrusted to him by “that god Yahweh, always angry, who fights against the world”. The artist also sought to update those medieval images of “macabre dances” in which Morte, seen as a skeleton, invites people to dance with him or walk towards or away from him.

The collective used significant data to request the opening, along with the declaration of a ben of cultural interest, of the Museo Carlos Maside do Castro de Samoedo (Now).