Published by Ediciones Polígrafa. Edited by Tomás Llorens.
This is the third volume in Poligrafa’s multivolume Julio González: Complete Works project. Credited with introducing Picasso to welded sculpture, González was also an important influence on the American Abstract Expressionist sculptor David Smith. This monumental project is published in collaboration with the Instituto Valenciano de Artemoderno in Spain, which possesses the largest collection of González’s work.
Published by Polígrafa/IVAM/Fund Azcona. Edited by Tomás Llorens.
This is the second of a planned seven-volume catalogue raisonné on the Spanish sculptor Julio González (1876–1942). The son of a goldsmith in Barcelona, González studied painting and sculpture from an early age. Upon moving to Paris in 1900, he joined the company of fellow Spanish artists such as Juan Gris, Pablo Gargallo and Pablo Picasso. Today, González is primarily known for his work in welded iron. Abstracted figures such his “’Monsieur’ Cactus” (1939) show a connection to the Cubist sculptures of Picasso, with whom González worked closely from the 1920s onward. Credited with introducing Picasso to welded sculpture, González was also an important influence on the American Abstract Expressionist sculptor David Smith. This monumental project is published in collaboration with the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno in Spain, which possesses the largest collection of González’s work.
Julio Gonzalez, born in Barcelona in 1876, is among the true pioneers of modern sculpture. He has had an immense influence on the course of sculpture in the 20th-century due to his use of linearl surface elements and idea of surrounding space as a sculptural material, ideas that helped replace the idea of the closed body in which form is determined by the mass of the material.
Julio González: Complete Works Volume II