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EUDALD SERRA GÜELL (Barcelona, 1911-2002). Untitled. 1961 Stoneware sculpture. Exemplary 1/5. Marble base. Signed and numbered Measurements: 60 x 30 x 7 cm. In the fifties and sixties, Eudald Serra cultivated a non-figurative sculpture of organic nature, with curved surfaces and profusion of voids. The 1961 piece we show here belongs to that period, especially fruitful for this author. This stoneware sculpture is endowed with a great power of suggestion. It is inspired by prehistoric effigies and the ethnic sculpture of ancestral cultures, while dialoguing with artists of the modern movement such as Brancusi and Jean Arp. Sculptor and painter, Eudald Serra began his training as a disciple of Angel Ferrant, combining his studies at the Schools of La Llotja and Fine Arts in Barcelona. During his student days he also worked in a jewelry workshop and in a shipping company, which is perhaps the root of his passion for travel, which led him on his first tour of Europe in 1932. He made his individual debut in 1934, in the Busquets hall in Barcelona, and worked together with the ADLAN group. In 1935 he made a study trip to Japan, becoming fascinated by the local culture to the point of settling in the city of Kobe, where he lived for several years. During this period he devoted himself mainly to ceramics, holding exhibitions in Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe. In 1939 he won the prize at the Hyogo exhibition and, after a brief stay in the United States, he returned to Spain in 1948. Between the late fifties and early sixties he traveled extensively in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and during the eighties he visited Central America, Australia, China and Morocco. His awards include the Grand Prize at the Alexandria Biennial, the Madrid Provincial Council Prize at the Hispano-American Biennial, the National Sculpture Prize and the Barcelona Jazz Salon Prize, among others. He was part of the Altamira group, and was a professor at the Massana School and the Fine Arts School of Barcelona. He is currently represented at the Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, the MACBA in Barcelona and the Museum of Alexandria, among others.
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EUDALD SERRA GÜELL (Barcelona, 1911-2002). Untitled. 1961 Stoneware sculpture. Exemplary 1/5. Marble base. Signed and numbered Measurements: 60 x 30 x 7 cm. In the fifties and sixties, Eudald Serra cultivated a non-figurative sculpture of organic nature, with curved surfaces and profusion of voids. The 1961 piece we show here belongs to that period, especially fruitful for this author. This stoneware sculpture is endowed with a great power of suggestion. It is inspired by prehistoric effigies and the ethnic sculpture of ancestral cultures, while dialoguing with artists of the modern movement such as Brancusi and Jean Arp. Sculptor and painter, Eudald Serra began his training as a disciple of Angel Ferrant, combining his studies at the Schools of La Llotja and Fine Arts in Barcelona. During his student days he also worked in a jewelry workshop and in a shipping company, which is perhaps the root of his passion for travel, which led him on his first tour of Europe in 1932. He made his individual debut in 1934, in the Busquets hall in Barcelona, and worked together with the ADLAN group. In 1935 he made a study trip to Japan, becoming fascinated by the local culture to the point of settling in the city of Kobe, where he lived for several years. During this period he devoted himself mainly to ceramics, holding exhibitions in Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe. In 1939 he won the prize at the Hyogo exhibition and, after a brief stay in the United States, he returned to Spain in 1948. Between the late fifties and early sixties he traveled extensively in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and during the eighties he visited Central America, Australia, China and Morocco. His awards include the Grand Prize at the Alexandria Biennial, the Madrid Provincial Council Prize at the Hispano-American Biennial, the National Sculpture Prize and the Barcelona Jazz Salon Prize, among others. He was part of the Altamira group, and was a professor at the Massana School and the Fine Arts School of Barcelona. He is currently represented at the Centro Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, the MACBA in Barcelona and the Museum of Alexandria, among others.
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