The Sebastián Padrón Acosta Library (BSPA) unveils its two new volumes, artistic miscellany Y historical miscellanywhich rescue a heterogeneous group of texts by the writer and scholar from Tenerife Sebastián Padrón Acosta (1900-1953), of artistic and historical themes.
Regarding the essays linked to the plastic arts –consulted over the years by many specialists and now recovered together for the first time–, it is about writings published after the civil war, in the first post-war period, especially in the newspapers La Tarde and THE DAY. One of Padrón Acosta’s most important profiles is that of a historian of Canarian art and a critic who values and encourages the work of young people who began to create during those difficult years, especially from the platform of the Círculo de Bellas Artes Santa Cruz.
Antonio José Eduardo, Diego Nicolás Eduardo, Nicolás Alfaro, González Méndez, Davó, Bonnín, Martín González, Cejas Zaldívar, Juan Ismael, Antonio Torres, José Julio, Eva Fernández, Alonso Reyes, Carlos Chevilly… are some of the names on which write in this expected collection of scattered texts about artistsvisions that complete his work on Canarian art with the well-known monographs on image makers such as Fernando Estévez, Rodríguez de la Oliva, Valentín Sanz, Luis de la Cruz or Juan de Miranda, who will also soon reissue this collection.
For its part, the other volume, historical miscellanycompiles articles on strictly historical themes, where those linked to the capital of Tenerife stand out (the church of El Pilar, the Virgen de Regla and her hermitage, Los Campitos, the Cruz de la Conquista, square and the convent of Santo Domingo…), some about Puerto de la Cruz, the burning of Judas in Tenerifethe biography of Teobaldo Power, nelson’s defeat (key essay in the history of the feat) or around figures such as Buenaventura Bonnet, Fernández Bethencourt or Nicolás Estévanez.
As the coordinator of the BSPA, author of the editions and introductions, José Miguel Perera, says, “if we talk about the work of Sebastian Padron Acostahis name appears as one of the most important and first within the key batch of researchers on Canarian Studies that emerged from the 40s of the 20th century, a date that will coincide with his stage of maturity ».
The Sebastián Padrón Acosta Library is a project that began in 2017 and is co-published by Mercurio Editorial and the Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos de Canary Islands (IEHC), with the aim of publishing from today the complete works of this important writer from Tenerife. The BSPA is coordinated by the poet, literary critic and researcher José Miguel Perera, who wrote his doctoral thesis on the writer-priest Sebastián Padrón Acosta (Puerto de la Cruz, 1900-Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1953).
So far the volumes have been edited canary legends, creative prose I, creative prose II Y Canarian poetesses (18th, 19th and 20th centuries)the first study on women poets of the Islandsto which are added these other two who will present themselves this Friday, at 7:30 p.m., at the IEHC headquarters in Puerto de la Cruz, where the coordinator and Margarita Rodríguez Espinosa, vice president of the northern cultural institution, will be present.
