Llegó el pollo! 2022 site specific graphite wall drawing, 20 meters (66 foot) long; NG Art Gallery, Panama City
“We can follow one of his drawings along the wall of the upper floor, as if on a journey through unknown landscapes. Made in pencil, it is so subtle that at first glance it might seem that the wall is bare. Three others have been made on pieces of marble, in a mixture of extremely delicate drawing, sculpture and trouvé support.
They are all meticulous representations of architectures that unite modernity and totalitarianism. They thus remind us that the voluntarism to force an economic, social and cultural revolution typical of fascism and communism – like these systems themselves – are monstrous children of the utopian ideals of modernity. The cities of Novoa are utopias that have become their opposite.] … [,Novoa disturbs us with the inhuman unreality of perfect and empty cities. Its urban panoramas and its architecture of exalted imagination are as impeccable as they are worrying: the fruit of a perverse modernity. The exquisiteness of the almost invisible drawing contrasts with the grandiose, often faked, of the buildings and monuments that he has represented, in a nightmarish contrast.] … [The artist has thus dedicated his entire work to deconstructing empty, oppressive rhetoric, and dreams as false as they are misleading.”
-Gerardo Mosquera 2022