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The purchase made by the Generalitat Valenciana of a large piece of work by Julio González on 1985 consecrated the Barcelona artist as a flagship figure of the IVAM, the great reference Valencian museum that would open its doors four years later. This goldsmith was not just any artist. Two totems of avant-garde art such as Brancusi and Picasso offered him collaborations in the late 1920s. From the thirties, González paved the way for modern sculpture based on iron, l’assemblage and construction by means of lines, plans i buits, what he himself called "drawing in space". His language, deeply personal, he synthesized the contradictions between the figurative and the abstract, between surrealism and constructivism, between academic conventions and avant-gardes, which went into crisis after the overwhelming dominance of Cubism until the mid-1920s. well, On the occasion of the 150 anniversary of Gonzalez's birth, IVAM has programmed the cycle Cactus Scriptures, that aims to read the work of the artist and the history of art from a multidisciplinary point of view. Writers like Sara Barquinero [25/3], Estela Sanchis [29/4], Andres Neuman i Jorge Carrión [20/5], Agustín Fernández Mallo [30/9], Manuel Baixauli [21/10] i Alicia head [11/11]. AU
