GÓMEZ DE LIAÑO, IGNACIO
Gómez de Liaño is one of the key figures in understanding the experimental poetry scene in Spain. As a poet, he began with Julio Campal in the avant-garde group Problematica 63, from which he moved away in 1966 to form his own initiative: the Cooperativa de Producción Artística y Artesana, with Herminio Molero and Manolo Quejido, among others. Gómez de Liaño's work focused on theoretical elaboration, through manifestos, and on the organization of events and group exhibitions around experimental poetry, which made numerous foreign artists known within the Spanish context. Likewise, it had an influential role in the cultural activity that emerged in the most important centers of artistic production of the moment such as the German Institute, the Calculus Center of the University of Madrid or the 1972 Pamplona Encounters. Ignacio Gómez de Liaño. Abandoning writing gives an account of this and places his figure as a catalyst for artists, as well as an outstanding author in the practice of public and action poetry.
