Riera i Arago, Joseph Maria - U-Boot - (born Barcelona 1954) Mixed media/cardboa…

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Riera i Arago, Joseph Maria - U-Boot - (born Barcelona 1954) Mixed media/cardboard. Ca. mid 1980s. Signed lower right. 75 x 103 cm; framed under glass - Provenance: Kunsthandel Barcelona, southern German private collection. - In his works, the artist explores the world of machines and the concept of movement as a painter, draughtsman, engraver and sculptor. He is one of the most important contemporary Spanish sculptors in the tradition of Catalan sculpture and follows in the footsteps of Julio González, who is considered the inventor of "iron sculpture" and the first "artist with the welding machine".

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Riera i Arago, Joseph Maria - U-Boot - (born Barcelona 1954)

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