ARTISTS
Julio González, Pablo Picasso and the Dematerialisation of Sculpture
Sep 23, 2022 - Jan 08, 2023
In 1928, Picasso, then inexperienced in ironwork, asked his friend Julio González to help him with a project for a funerary monument to the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. The two then tackled the creation of a dematerialized sculpture project, “a profound statue of nothing, like poetry, like glory”. This collaboration has traditionally been studied as the genesis of a new type of sculpture, in iron, which dominated the art scene throughout the middle decades of the 20th century. This exhibition goes beyond that well-known approach to delve deeper into the general context in which the metal sculpture of the 1920s developed and to show, moreover, that the artistic affinities and common concerns of both creators were not limited to that brief period, but began in the modernist Barcelona of the early 20th century and continued for years in Paris until the death of Gonzalez in 1942.
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In 1928, Picasso, then inexperienced in ironwork, asked his friend Julio González to help him with a project for a funerary monument to the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. The two then tackled the creation of a dematerialized sculpture project, “a profound statue of nothing, like poetry, like glory”. This collaboration has traditionally been studied as the genesis of a new type of sculpture, in iron, which dominated the art scene throughout the middle decades of the 20th century. This exhibition goes beyond that well-known approach to delve deeper into the general context in which the metal sculpture of the 1920s developed and to show, moreover, that the artistic affinities and common concerns of both creators were not limited to that brief period, but began in the modernist Barcelona of the early 20th century and continued for years in Paris until the death of Gonzalez in 1942.
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