Overview
- Mayor Abel Caballero inaugurated the new CMAG in the first‑floor space of Casa das Artes on Friday, June 12, and the centre is now open to visitors on a published weekly schedule.
- The show presents a curated selection drawn from nearly 1,000 municipal items with coverage reporting either 69 or 70 paintings and sculptures on view.
- Curators arranged the route in seven chronological sections that include a monographic room for Urbano Lugrís and a focus on postwar academicism, exile‑era artists and later modernizing movements.
- Key works returned to public view after restoration or long absence, notably Camilo Nogueira’s wooden sculpture Natureza and Laxeiro’s rarely shown painting A barca Espacial.
- The project required an integral refurbishment of the Casa das Artes first floor with an investment of about €320,000 and is presented by officials as a civic effort to recover and democratize local artistic heritage.