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.