Setdart Subastas S.L
Lot 4
PABLO SERRANO AGUILAR (Teruel, 1908 - Madrid, 1985).Untitled.Bronze sculpture.Wooden cross.Signed on the back.Measurements: 67 x 80 x 25 cm (figure); 100 x 90 x 60 cm (cross).A piece of great emotional intensity with which Pablo Serrano revisits the pathos of Christian art from an existentialist point of view.An artist trained in sculpture, he received his first lessons at the Salesian School in Sarriá. After finishing his studies he moved to Argentina where he was taught the art of carving. After this period abroad, he decided to return to Spain in 1955 with a renewed technique in which diversity and unity prevailed. Serrano evolved through experimentation in each of his stages, as he was guided by his own will and not by the requirements of society. In 1956 he settled in Madrid, where he became a founding member of the El Paso group of Madrid's most innovative artists. Pablo Serrano works through poetry, delving into juxtaposed terms such as beginning and end, life and death, despair and hope. He also works on the figure of the human being, trying to explain and understand the human situation through his works. During his career, Serrano won the Sculpture Prize at the Hispano-American Biennial in Barcelona. In 1962 he exhibited twenty-three sculptures at the Venice Biennale to great critical acclaim. In 2003 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him. Works by Pablo Serrano can be found in the museum that bears his name in Zaragoza, the Museo Reina Sofía, the Museo Nacional in Montevideo, the Museo San José in Uruguay, the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in Paris, the MoMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the National Galleries in Rome and Budapest, the Rio Piedras University in Puerto Rico, the Brow University in Providence, the Clear Lake Clear Lake University in Clear Lake, and the University of Puerto Rico, Brow University in Providence, Clear Lake City University in Houston and the University of Zaragoza, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Wadsworth Atheneum in Connecticut, the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Venice, the Vatican Museum and the Middelheim in Antwerp, among many others.
