Art history has suffered a great loss with the passing of Tomás Llorens. This Spanish critic, professor and art historian played a decisive role in the modernization of his country’s museum landscape. He was also a driving force in the study and valorization of the work of Catalan sculptor Julio González. It is for this […]
Julio González’s works are presented in the exhibition “Escultura infinita (Infinite sculpture)”, currently on display at IVAM Alcoi. This satellite museum of the IVAM Centre Julio González is situated about an hour from Valencia. The show brings together the works of 41 Spanish artists, executed between 1930 and 1996, in order to explore the evolution […]
Julio González is represented in “La emoción del espacio”, an exhibition on display at the Niemeyer International Cultural Center from October 9, 2020 to June 13, 2021. In this presentation, a choice selection of works from the Azcona collection are sublimated in an exceptional architectural setting. This panorama of artwork retraces the history of contemporary […]
Julio and Roberta González are represented in the Pompidou Center Malaga’s temporary exhibition which retraces a century of Spanish art, from Joan Miró to Miquel Barceló. This exposition shows the crucial place occupied by Spanish artists in the development of avant-garde artistic movements throughout the 20th century, from cubism and surrealism to abstraction, and how […]
In addition to his paintings and sculptures currently on display at the Centre Pompidou Málaga, residents and visitors of this Andalusian town can also admire eleven works by Julio González in the Carmen Thyssen Museum’s current exhibition “Masks. Metamorphosis of Modern Identity ” (July 28, 2020 to January 10, 2021). With eleven works displayed, Julio […]
The Fine Arts Museum of Lyon has organized an exhibition that sheds new light on the important place of the theme of the bather in Pablo Picasso’s work over the course of his extraordinary and long career. Picasso’s works are accompanied by creations by his predecessors, his contemporaries and contemporary artists, which testify to the […]
In the current crisis, it is essential to support health care systems in every country. That’s why a group of Spanish galerists, currently unable to pursue their profession, launched the initiative for a charity auction to benefit their country’s medical system. This sale of 28 works by renowned Spanish artists ran from April 28 through […]
Roberta González (1909-1976), Julio González’s only daughter, was a painter and draftswoman. After a training and early period strongly influenced by her father’s work, Roberta González begins to liberate and affirm herself in the postwar period. Between the 1950s and the 1970s, her work undergoes a remarquable transformation. Though her postwar paintings are quite dark […]
New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has reopened its doors to the public after massive renovations. The exhibition space has been vastly expanded and the display of the collection “remixed” according to chronological and thematic considerations. Now on the display on the fifth floor devoted to art from 1880 to the 1940s is […]
The fourth tome of Julio González’s new catalogue raisonné has been released. It covers his production from 1925-1933, a decisive time for his work. Indeed, it is during these years that González decides to abandon painting and to devote himself entirely to sculpture, his true vocation. After the publication of a first catalogue raisonné devoted […]
