The theme of women completely dominates the work of Julio González. This unprecedented selection from the IVAM collection on the subject confirms this. Family portraits or women of modern life, academic nudes or abstracts, real or idealized figures, historical and political allegories: they are all part of the stylistic evolution of filled to empty forms, from figuration to abstraction. His sculptures are also loaded with meaning. They reflect the emancipation of contemporary women, the transit from the private sphere to the public, from silence to speech.
This chronological and thematic presentation of the collection underlines the major stages of its evolution linking life and creation, intimacy and history: the first professional models, the portraits of the family environment, the peasant woman and the urban woman, the maternity hospitals and the readers, real figures and idealized types, the almost abstract standing figures like the political allegories.
His family environment and its influence on his sculpture are also notable, related to the goldsmith workshop of his aunts and his wife, as well as the production of their own decorative objects, bound in the years 20 i 30 in the adornment of a new female body.
Paying tribute to the work of Julio González is to remember the three strong women who were faithful to his memory. his daughter, the abstract artist Roberta González whose work is still to be studied outside the influence of her father and the generous heirs of this, Carmen Martínez and Viviane Grimminger who expanded the IVAM funds with their donations.
