Description
JOSE SOLLA (Havana, 1909). "Door", 2003. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower corner. Measurements: 38 x 46 cm; 55 x 63 cm (frame). Practically all his artistic career has been spent in South America, where he lived since 1950, although he returned to Galicia in the eighties, has held several exhibitions that confirmed a painter curdled, imaginative, lyrical, erotic at times, excellent connoisseur of the best European tradition and Hispanic American indigenous art, which has absorbed to give it a very personal expression. José Solla studied at the Escuela Superior de Artes Visuales Martín A. Malharro, with Professor Demetrio Urruchúa, teacher of so many excellent artists of Galician origin. He made his first exhibition in 1964. He participated in the Biennials of Pontevedra in 1973, 1974 and 1976. In the second international edition of this important contest he won the Gold Medal. Other awards were won by Solla in Caserta, Italy; in Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata and Salta, Argentina. The exhibition that confirmed his status as a highly personal and accomplished painter was held at the Caixavigo Cultural Center in 1990, as part of the Great Galician Artists series. He is represented in museums in South America, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, the United States, Italy, and in the museums of Pontevedra and Vigo. Solla is both lyrical and expressionist. His landscapes, usually marine, more intuitions than representations, are of an exquisite lightness, dancing, of very thin material and felt as a mural. The compositions of figures, on the other hand, are baroque, variegated, with a strong erotic charge and a world of grotesque, of course deliberate. He relies on a drawing of great fluency, which allows him surprising complexities, with evasions to the oneiric. Imaginary beings, inspired by pre-Columbian mythologies, populate ideal spaces and are like transnations in which the dreamy, evocative Galician that Solla has carried inside him since his childhood, looking at the Pontevedra estuary, is finally present. He is a consummate watercolorist, of direct graphics in the stain, capable of creating ideal worlds in which there are totemic birds and winged beings that wander through spaces suggested by an overflowing imagination. A multiform painter, unmistakable, attractive, of very well done work, because he knows how to restrain the torrent of his imagination to settle it in different areas, where the grotesque is humanized and the human overflows in unpredictable mythologies.
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JOSE SOLLA (Havana, 1909). "Door", 2003. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower corner. Measurements: 38 x 46 cm; 55 x 63 cm (frame). Practically all his artistic career has been spent in South America, where he lived since 1950, although he returned to Galicia in the eighties, has held several exhibitions that confirmed a painter curdled, imaginative, lyrical, erotic at times, excellent connoisseur of the best European tradition and Hispanic American indigenous art, which has absorbed to give it a very personal expression. José Solla studied at the Escuela Superior de Artes Visuales Martín A. Malharro, with Professor Demetrio Urruchúa, teacher of so many excellent artists of Galician origin. He made his first exhibition in 1964. He participated in the Biennials of Pontevedra in 1973, 1974 and 1976. In the second international edition of this important contest he won the Gold Medal. Other awards were won by Solla in Caserta, Italy; in Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata and Salta, Argentina. The exhibition that confirmed his status as a highly personal and accomplished painter was held at the Caixavigo Cultural Center in 1990, as part of the Great Galician Artists series. He is represented in museums in South America, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, the United States, Italy, and in the museums of Pontevedra and Vigo. Solla is both lyrical and expressionist. His landscapes, usually marine, more intuitions than representations, are of an exquisite lightness, dancing, of very thin material and felt as a mural. The compositions of figures, on the other hand, are baroque, variegated, with a strong erotic charge and a world of grotesque, of course deliberate. He relies on a drawing of great fluency, which allows him surprising complexities, with evasions to the oneiric. Imaginary beings, inspired by pre-Columbian mythologies, populate ideal spaces and are like transnations in which the dreamy, evocative Galician that Solla has carried inside him since his childhood, looking at the Pontevedra estuary, is finally present. He is a consummate watercolorist, of direct graphics in the stain, capable of creating ideal worlds in which there are totemic birds and winged beings that wander through spaces suggested by an overflowing imagination. A multiform painter, unmistakable, attractive, of very well done work, because he knows how to restrain the torrent of his imagination to settle it in different areas, where the grotesque is humanized and the human overflows in unpredictable mythologies.
