The sculptors included in this volume are extremely important in the evolution of the Galician art during the three last decades and, mainly, during the 1960s and 1970s. They are the protagonists of the transformation that took place inside the traditional direct carving in favour of a wider conception, both in the poetics of the shapes and the styles that are in tune with the international contexts of the avant-garde and of other materials, among which some historical ones, like the bronze or the clay, become very important, as well as the most experimental ones, like iron, steel, concrete and the industrial ones. This also happens in the consideration of sculpture as a public monument and in the option of the innovated poetics of the space, nature or the disappearance of the base at the end of the 1970s.

　　So, the thirteen sculptors that we include are not only thirteen proofs of the divergence or the plurality of styles that existed in Galicia in the last forty years. They are also symptoms of a necessary dialogue, in terms of an artistic style, between this Northwest and the world, that is to say, between the territory that gives them a cultural filiation and a mark of tradition, and the aesthetic experiences that defined the international art during the last half of the century.