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The work of Spanish sculptor Carlos Nicanor is rooted in the surrealist legacy of André Breton, the Dadaists and the word-object of Joseph Kosuth, but it also lays claim to significant heritage from the sculptors and artisans of the Canary Islands. With such a diverse legacy, Nicanor has become so traditional in the sculpted form that the very fact of such excess has raised questions. It is as if he “kneads” the wood to remove any trace of hardness and then presents it as an almost (impossibly) soft, organic, free, loose form, with its own autonomy. His work often defies the physics and logic …