Exuberance Is Beauty: Queen Sofia Does Justice to Nestor, Marginal and Visionary Painter

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The Way of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom: it was said by William Blake in one of his hellish proverbs, and a century later Wilde abounded in the matter when he made Dorian Gray scream, diabolical: “No excess is vulgar!” Something of the two walks through this historical retrospective of Nestor’s work, and resounds his very aesthetics of unbridledness and overflowing with conventional good taste (which is, of course, also an ethic of art a…