Minotaur2.0111_RequejoNovoa

Very human bull, very taurine human. Compelling about RequejoNovoa's “Minotaur” is the extraordinary humanity and its simultaneously extraordinary beastliness. The attitude of the figure is such that his male-human demeanor is so beautifully captured in the gesture with his left hand stroking the tip of the (enormous) horn and his right arm is draped as it is over the right horn. It looks very much like a sympathetic human being; however, from behind the creature seems to utterly taurine with tail and dorsal burliness.

Quintessentially Spanish? The work of Requejo Novoa includes many sculptures of bulls. As manifest in the work of the Spaniard Pablo Picasso, the attraction of the Minotaur allows great artists to ruminate on the effects of mingling the attributes of man and beast.