The Pompidou Center Paris presented the first retrospective of César Baldaccini (1921-1998), called “César”. This important French sculptor’s innovative work was inspired by Julio Gonzalez’s iron sculpture. César’s “Welded Iron sculptures”, created in Paris the the postwar era, include human and animal figures, composed from sheet and scrap metal welded using industrial techniques. This creative […]
“Montserrat’s screaming head”, a powerful sculpture created by Julio Gonzalez in 1942, is on display at the Pompidou Center Malaga. This is part of the new hanging of their permanent collection, “Modern utopias”. The Catalan peasant woman is a favorite subject of Gonzalez’s to capture his solidarity with his countrymen and women suffering during the […]
Articulation of Forms and Negative Space. Julio González and Jacques Lipchitz. At this year’s Miami Beach edition of Art Basel, the prestigious international art fair, the Marlborough Gallery will present an exhibition of works by Julio González and Jacques Lipchitz, two major 20th century sculptors. Though these two foreign artists moved within the same avant-gardist circles in pre-WWI […]
Just months after her retrospective at the IVAM Centre Julio González, Roberta González is once again featured in a personal show, this time in France, at the Art and History museum in Bormes-les-Mimosas. The fact that her works are being shown in this lovely village on the Côte d’Azur isn’t a coincidence; Roberta González was […]
Roberta and Julio González are featured in a temporary exhibition organized at the IVAM Centre Julio González. This museum conserves the most important collection of each artist’s work as well as the family’s archives, thanks to an important donation made by Carmen Martinez and Viviane Grimminger, their right-holders. The exhibition composed of about one hundred […]
