The Tourist Centers will publish 700 paper copies of the monograph "Pancho Lasso. First sculptor of Lanzarote" thanks to a grant awarded for this purpose by the Department of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands, coordinated by Manuela Armas from Lanzarote.
The initiative will allow the publication on the Lanzarote author, prepared by the historian Arminda Arteta in collaboration with the MIAC team, edited and hosted here, to be transferred to paper, with the objectives of providing greater accessibility and improving the reading experience through a manageable format with an attractive and innovative design.
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and of the Board of Directors of the Tourist Centers, María Dolores Corujo, considered that "this publication is a tribute that complements the research work carried out by the MIAC - Castillo de San José to bring the life and work of one of Lanzarote's most prolific and transcendental artists to the general public."
According to Councilor Armas, one of the central objectives of the policies of the Government of the Canary Islands is to value the island's cultural heritage, the visibility of artists, and the recognition of their merits and trajectories. "And in this map of the recovery of the forgotten names of Canarian culture, the pending issue with the Lanzarote sculptor Pancho Lasso, linked to the Vallecas and Luján Pérez schools, committed to social struggles and whose work, difficult to label, travels from popular realism to the most avant-garde surrealism of his time, is notorious."
In this sense, the CEO of the Entity, Benjamín Perdomo, recalled that the old fortress transformed by César Manrique "is the repository of the largest public collection on this Lanzarote author of the 20th century."
The project has also had the participation of Vanessa Rodríguez, creative and designer of the publication. "Pancho Lasso. First sculptor of Lanzarote" will be on sale soon in the stores of the Tourist Centers.
