Press release

Susana Solano
18 September–7 November 1993

Susana Solano was born in 1946 and lives and works in Barcelona. She started her career as a painter but since 1979 has devoted herself exclusively to sculpture. In the 1980s she established herself as one of the leading artists of the post-Franco generation, alongside Juan Munoz and Cristina Iglesias.
This exhibition features 15 works made between 1986 and 1992 as well as five “swings” created specially for the show.

The sculptural vocabulary developed by Susana Solano since the 1980s is spare and stark. She generally uses prefabricated elements such as iron railings or steel plaques, which she combines with materials such as plaster, glass and lead.

Fraught with cultural and personal allusions (the theme of childhood is particularly important for this artist), her sculptures in the form of containers, tables and barriers are often monumental in scale.

This exhibition was presented in December 1992 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid then at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, and the Malmö Konsthall (Sweden).
A catalogue was published to accompany this retrospective.