Fernando Castro Flórez: Sánchez Robayna, the master of the exemplary syntax

Andrés Sánchez Robayna has been, in every way, a poetic archipelago, capable of establishing beautiful journey from his beautiful literary breath to painting and musica lucid witness of contemporaneity, an untimely that linked the baroque conceptism of Gongora … with the Brazilian concretism of the Campos or the Classical ‘Vanitas’ with transvanguardist neofiguration. The ‘Syntaxis’ magazine, which launched, is one of the most extraordinary cultural documents of its effort to connect aesthetic spaces, a heroic will to establish an “indisciplinary” dialogue.

Knowledgeable of the “strange insulas”, a master of poetic elegance, a professor admired, tuned with painters like Tàpieshe reviewed the magic of the landscapes of ORAMAS and inhabited with its extraordinary meditative capacity the spaces of Canarian artists such as Luis Palmero or Juan Gopar. His poetic work is simply referential and also his essays of literary criticism and aesthetic analysis are exemplary readings.

In 1922 he published a wonderful book entitled ‘Draft flame and candle’ (Ed. Galaxia Gutenberg), in which he offered perspectives of what we could qualify as a new “Poetic of space” in Postbachelardian key. Overwhelmed by his loss, abysmined in sadness when his voice goes out, I feel that will remain a lighthouse, a candlein the tradition of Georges de la Tour, which will guide us in a dark world. Leave a lot of lucidity, He gave us the most beautiful poetrywe will not forget the generous teacher, to the friend who from the island sent, from time to time, breath messages. Its unique syntax and its multiple senses are unforgettable.

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