Women completely dominate as a subject in the work of Julio Gonz\u00e1lez. This unprecedented selection from the IVAM collection on the subject is a testament to this. His work spans family portraits and portraits of women in modern life, academic and abstract nudes, real and idealised figures, historical and political allegories: all form part of Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s stylistic evolution from full to empty forms, from figuration to abstraction. His sculptures are also permeated with meaning. They reflect the emancipation of contemporary women and their transition from the private to the public sphere, from silence to speech.<\/p>\n
This chronological and thematic presentation of the collection underscores the major stages of his evolution, linking life and creation, intimacy and history: his early professional models, portraits of his family, peasant and urban women, depictions of motherhood and women reading, realistic figures and idealized types, and almost abstract standing figures as well as political allegories.<\/p>\n
Also noteworthy is his family environment and its influence on his sculpture, connected to the goldsmithing workshop of his aunts and his wife, as well as to the production of his own decorative objects, which in the 1920s and 30s were linked to the adornment of a new female form. Paying homage to the work of Julio Gonz\u00e1lez means remembering the three strong women who remained faithful to his memory: his daughter, the abstract artist Roberta Gonz\u00e1lez, whose work is still being studied outside the influence of her father, and her generous heirs, Carmen Mart\u00ednez and Viviane Grimminger, who enriched the IVAM\u2019s holdings with their donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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