Pablo Serrano

PABLO SERRANO AGUILAR (Crivillén, Teruel, 1908 - Madrid, 1985).
"Guitar Nº9", Series divertimentos in Picasso, The guitar and cubism, c. 1984-1985.
Patinated bronze and steel base. P/A Current print run of 7 copies.
Attached certificate issued by Mrs. Susana Spadoni, director of the Pablo Serrano Museum.
It presents a slight blow in the left central part.
Signed and justified.
Measurements: 25.5 x 14 x 11 cm (total size).
The series Divertimentos with Picasso, the guitar and cubism, was one of the most significant projects of the last creative stage of the Aragonese artist. Executed in patinated bronze and presented on a steel base, the work synthesizes many of the formal and intellectual concerns that crossed Serrano's career: the tension between construction and destruction of form, spatial experimentation and dialogue with the tradition of the historical avant-garde.
The choice of the guitar as the central motif is not accidental. Since the beginning of the 20th century, this instrument became an emblem of the cubist language thanks to the plastic investigations of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who transformed everyday objects into fragmented structures capable of questioning traditional representation. Serrano takes up this legacy from a fully contemporary and deeply personal perspective. Rather than reproducing a recognizable guitar, the sculptor breaks it down into planes, voids and volumetric tensions that force the viewer to mentally reconstruct the object. The piece thus becomes an exercise in perception and visual memory.
In this series, Serrano does not limit himself to paying homage to Picasso; he establishes a critical and creative dialogue with him. The term "divertimentos" reveals precisely this playful and experimental will. The artist revisits Cubism not as a closed historical formula, but as a language still capable of generating new sculptural possibilities.
Pablo Serrano was one of the fundamental figures of 20th century Spanish sculpture. After a long stay in Latin America, especially in Uruguay, he returned to Spain in the 1950s. 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 of 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 Providence, the Clear Lake University in Providence 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.