Sin título (Untitled)

Dimensions: 37,5 x 26,1 x 17,9 cm
Year of entry: 2014
Registration number: AD07000
Date: 1935
Materia: Plaster, painted wire, wood and paint
Credit: Donation of the Real Asociación de Amigos del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2014

Antoni G. Lamolla was one of the few Catalan Surrealists with a solo exhibition in Madrid, a show held in 1935 through the patronage of ADLAN (Friends of New Art), an association he also exhibited with in collective exhibitions in Paris and Tenerife in 1936. In contrast to the other Surrealist sculptors, Lamolla did not opt to make objects, modelling plaster instead by following a traditional process of sculptural art which was also employed by sculptor Leandre Cristòfol.

Sin título (Untitled) reflects an artistic universe rooted in biomorphic and threadlike forms, outside of any Dalinian influence. With a poetic and symbolic figuration possessing touches of germination, it can also be linked to Lamolla’s own pictorial works and some of those made by Ramon Marinel·lo; the culmination of a search for art’s subjectivation, also shared with José Viola Gamón (Manuel Viola) and leading him to a real and objective fixation with the images that came out of psychological automatism.

Carmen Fernández Aparicio