Nova Galicia Edicións, S. L. was founded in Vigo in 1984 to disseminate culture through the publication of different art books.
In 1997 we started the Artist Painters collection, which in 2002 was expanded with the series Artist Architects and Artists Sculptors. This project consists of the seventeen volumes published, plus thirteen more that are being produced. We have already talked about two hundred artists and reproduced approximately eight thousand works of art, which means four million cm2 of colour.
Also, since 2000, Nova Galicia Edicións has published, both in Galician and Portuguese, a collection of Art Books, some monographs dedicated to the most important artists of the universal painting. Right now, the ones on the market are Van Gogh, Monet, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Leonardo, Piero della Francesca, Mattise, Picasso, Kandinsky, Velázquez, Renoir, Gauguin and Michelangelo. We publish at least six per year and the collection is intended to have thirty-two volumes.
The commercial success and, above all, the cultural success of these two works did not only act as an incentive for Nova Galicia Edicións, which faced them up without public funding, but it meant a new contribution to the cultural patrimony of our country from the private sector.
Nova Galicia Edicións is immersed in a continuous international project of expansion. Due to this, we usually visit the main book fairs all over the world, which has resulted in negotiations for the collection Artists Painters to be published in other languages, (now our books are published in Galician, Spanish, English and Portuguese). Besides, we have experience on selling to other countries, among which we should mention: China, Slovenia, United States, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Mexico, Italy, France and England. Right now, our exportations represent the 43% of our turnover.
Looking to the future and trying to present new universal products, Nova Galicia Edicións is working on new projects, among which we should emphasize Art of Galicia and North of Portugal, the first work that compiles the valuable cultural patrimony that links these two regions.