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Leopoldo Emperador, a native of Gran Canaria, transports us to the neighboring continent with this work of African inspiration, as exotic as the name with which he christened it: Na-àNIMI. During the 10th Puerto del Rosario Symposium, the sculptor was welding piece by piece, as if it were a great corten steel puzzle, to leave the majoreros this enigmatic and evocative work, which forms part of a collection bearing the same name and whose common denominator are African masks, taken by the Canarian artist to a new form of abstract expression. Already in the past century, these pieces inspired others like Picasso or Gauguin and, to this day, they continue to reinvent themselves in the imagination of modern authors who, like Emperador, seek in the motherland a muse to guide their creative evolution. It is very easy to observe this work, or any other that reflects aspects of African art, and see nothing more than a certain exotic addition. But the reality is that African masks, so primary, rough and elemental, have always been considered objects of power that conferred superhuman and sometimes quasi-divine aptitudes on the bearer. And it may be precisely their supernatural character that has inspired the author of this work, who instead of describing what it represents in a figurative way, seeks to transmit with his abstract forms the mystical magnetism they radiate.