Pablo Serrano

PABLO SERRANO AGUILAR (Crivillén, Teruel, 1908 - Madrid, 1985).
"Unidad-Yunta", 1973.
Bronze sculpture with methacrylate base, copy 7/7.
Signed and justified by hand.
The Pablo Serrano Museum in Zaragoza houses a work of the same series, as does the Museo de Escultura Al Aire Libre de Madrid, which exhibits a large example in the Paseo de la Castellana.
Measurements: 16 x 30 x 16 cm.

In "Unidad-Yunta" Pablo Serrano simplifies themes already treated in series such as "Hombres-bóveda" and Hombres-puerta". The work responds to his restless personality and his eagerness to explore new paths, which led him to focus his production on the simplification of forms, leaving aside the realism that had prevailed until now in his works, to enter into geometrization and abstraction. Through two independent pieces, arranged one in front of the other and with totally complementary volumes whose shapes would be perfectly assembled if they were put together, the Aragonese artist represents the world as a fusion of opposing forces: life-death, masculine-feminine or matter-spirit are some of the concepts intrinsic to this sculpture. The Pablo Serrano Museum in Zaragoza houses a work from the same series, as does the Museo de Escultura Al Aire Libre in Madrid, which exhibits a large example on the Paseo de la Castellana.

After beginning his training in Zaragoza Serrano moved to Barcelona, where he studied sculpture until his departure, in 1939, to Montevideo. Between Uruguay and Argentina he worked for twenty-five years. He won the First National Prize at the Montevideo Fine Arts Salon in 1944, 1951 and 1954, but did not return to Spain until his great triumph at the Montevideo Biennial in 1955, when he was awarded the Grand Prize. That same year he won the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Hispano-American Biennial in Barcelona. In 1962 he exhibits, with great critical acclaim, twenty-three sculptures at the Venice Biennale. In 2003 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him. We can find works by Pablo Serrano in the museum that bears his name in Zaragoza, the Reina Sofia Museum, the National Museum of Montevideo, the San José Museum in Uruguay, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the MoMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the National Galleries of 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 San José in Uruguay, Brow in Providence, Clear Lake City in Houston and 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.