This September, French high school students will discover González’s Tête Montserrat criant (1942) on the pages of their French textbook (2nde, éditions Hattier, 2019). This powerful sculpture of a Catalan peasant woman screaming in rage and despair at the injustices of war serves to illustrate a texte by Wajdi Wouawad, Incendies (2003), which recounts the horros of […]
This fall, the fourth tome of Julio González’s new catalogue raisonné will be released. It covers the entirety of 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 […]
Four drawings by Julio González are currently displayed at the Arkas Art Center in Turkey in the exhibition Picasso et les arts du spectacle which opened September 18 (through January 6, 2020). This exhibition explores the place of the performing arts in Picasso’s work, from theater to the corrida, and forms part of the ambitious […]
For the first time, Brazil is discovering the work of Julio González, thanks to the retrospective “Julio González. Space and Matter” which opened on June 4 at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in collaboration with the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) and the Fondation Abertis, and with the support of Arteris. […]
« Matter, Time and Space. Julio González and the Avant-Garde », is a new display of González’s works from the permanent collection at the IVAM Centre Julio González in Valencia (Espagne). The show is organized in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the museum’s opening. The prestigious donation of Julio, Roberta and Joan González’s works […]
The Fondation Maeght (Saint-Paul-de-Vence) pays tribute in its current exhibition, “The Spirit of a Collection: Donations”, to the generous donations it has received over the years from artists, friends and family. It recognizes the importance of these donations in helping the Fondation constitute one of Europe’s most important collections of modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, […]
Julio and Roberta González are represented with 18 works of art in the exhibition “Picasso and the Exodus. A History of Spanish Art in Resistance”, held at the Abattoirs museum of Toulouse from March 15 to August 25, 2019. This exhibition, which is inspired by Guernica, held at Paris’s Picasso Museum last year, explores the artistic […]
Danseuse à la marguerite (Dancer with daisy), a 1937 sculpture by Julio González, is currently displayed at the Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMC+) of Saint Etienne Métropole, in their temporary exhibition, “Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d’une femme” (“Twenty-four hours in the life of a woman”). This unprecedented exhibition tells the story of an imaginary and […]
The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), considered today one of the most important modern art museums in Spain, celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2019. This institution, inaugurated in 1989 in the presence of Queen Sofia, opened in large part thanks to a series of important donations of the artwork and archives of Julio, Roberta and Joan […]
In conjunction with the exhibition “Picasso et la guerre”, which opens on April 5 at the musée de l’Armée in Paris, Dr. Amanda Herold-Marme will give a conference in French entitled “Roberta Gonzalez: an artistic path forged by war”. This conference will recount the life and work of Roberta Gonzalez, an artist of French and […]
