La mujer en la obra de Julio González

Fri, 27 Mar – Sun, 28 Feb 27.03. - 28.02.

IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia

Julio González was a Spanish sculptor pioneer and one of the main figures in the evolution of modern sculpture. This exhibition by IVAM presents an unprecedented selection of his work, centered on the theme of women. The exhibition includes family portraits, academic nudes or abstract figures, real or idealized figures, historical and political allegories, which reflect his stylistic evolution from solid forms to empty ones, from figuration to abstraction. His sculptures also explore the emancipation of contemporary women, their transition from the private sphere to the public, from silence to speech. The exhibition highlights the major stages of his evolution linking life and creation, intimacy and history, including the first professional models, family portraits, the peasant woman and the urban woman, motherhood and readers, real figures and idealized types, almost abstract standing figures such as political allegories. It also emphasizes his family environment and its influence on his sculpture, related to the goldsmithing workshop of his aunts and his wife, as well as to the production of his own decorative objects, linked in the 1920s and 1930s to the ornamentation of a new female body.

• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: None

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