SUSANA SOLANO

Susana Solano’s sculpture is not simply a meditation on form in space, the eternal preoccupation of the sculptor, but must also be imbued with feeling and intention. Her sculpture—most often in stainless steel—is a journey through time. Susana Solano produces few works today, as she believes that a work cannot be duplicated, must retain its resonance, and must “work” with time. Moreover, she speaks of her work with a certain reserve and radically rejects all rhetoric. “The truth is that the creative spark ignites without my forcing it, in my immediate and social environment, in my personal experiences, in everyday life, in what I know and what I don’t know, in what hurts me and what makes me happy. The work no longer belongs to me, and that amazes me, because it belongs to itself. I have been only an instrument, perhaps a shadow, of collective memory. Any attempt at explanation is anecdotal, and the greatest anecdote would be to tell or write it myself. Art is something else; that is its glory, in a world increasingly filled with pacts, norms, methods, bureaucracies, truths, reasons... and their opposites.”

Susana Solano (Barcelona, ​​1946) is considered one of the most important artists of her generation in Spain. She received the Spanish National Visual Arts Award in 1988, participated in documenta in Kassel in 1987 and in Skulptur Projekte Münster the same year, and again in 1992, as well as the Venice Biennale in 1988 and 1993. Among her recent solo exhibitions are Con la mano 1979-1980 at CA2M Madrid, El mundo de las cosas CNIO Arte 2022 Madrid, Muecas MACBA Barcelona 1999, Acta IVAM Valencia 2019, Acta dos Museo Patio Herreriano Valladolid 2019-2020, and Anonyme Fondation Villa Casas Barcelona 2024.