{"id":11692,"date":"2025-07-04T10:07:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T09:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/2025\/07\/julio-gonzalez-in-cactus-nouveau-musee-de-monaco-6-7-25-11-1-26\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T16:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T15:52:51","slug":"julio-gonzalez-in-cactus-nouveau-musee-de-monaco-6-7-25-11-1-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/2025\/07\/julio-gonzalez-in-cactus-nouveau-musee-de-monaco-6-7-25-11-1-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Julio Gonz\u00e1lez in &#8220;Cactus&#8221;, Nouveau Mus\u00e9e de Monaco,  6.7.2025-11.1.2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This prickly plant native to arid regions has long been a source of fascination from both a botanical and artistic point of view. The New Museum of Monaco&#8217;s innovative new show, mounted in collaboration with the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech, focuses on the various ways the cactus has inspired modern and contemporary artists, including Julio Gonz\u00e1lez.<\/p>\n\n<p>The Catalan sculptor depicted a substantial series of combattive anthropomorphic cacti beginning as a show of his support and solidarity for his compatriots defending democracy during the Spanish Civil War. Four of his drawings and his sculpture &#8220;Monsieur Cactus&#8221; (1939) are displayed in Monaco alongside works by a vast panel of modern and contemporary artists, from his contemporaries like Constantin Brancusi and Ossip Zadkine, to contemporary artists like Maurizio Cattelan, David Hockney and Wolfgang Tillmans.<\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;Cactus&#8221; will be on view from July 6th through January 11, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This prickly plant native to arid regions has long been a source of fascination from both a botanical and artistic point of view. The New Museum of Monaco&#8217;s innovative new show, mounted in collaboration with the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech, focuses on the various ways the cactus has inspired modern and contemporary artists, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640,696],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition","category-expositions-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11692"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11723,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions\/11723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliogonzalez.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}