The work of the sculptor is a meticulous craftsman, perfectionist to the extreme, piercing eyes tha

Walking down the street Princesa, Moncada, Santiago, Fernando ... is a luxury that occasionally we should allow, whether or not residents of Barcelona. The weight of history breathes through the ancient cobblestone many generations before us have trod; solid walls, palaces robust to spend almost rub explains a lot of family secrets if someday we aturéssim hear them. Number 5 of a narrow street called crowbar hides a museum, the MEAM (European Museum of Modern Art), whose permanent collection not for me to recommend it especially led types hurts me, but yes the temporary exhibition that opened in December in the first floor: led types "A walk through the work of Jose Limon." The find valid until February 2015 and I of you do not lose me.
In the process of writing my latest novel, "The hospital of the poor", I had the opportunity to visit me closely to some of our great sculptors of the turn of the nineteenth led types to the twentieth and those who were young talents in the early years of the century. A discovery that has made me more sensitive to this art, sculpture, perhaps had tasted less painting, music and literature.
The work of the sculptor is a meticulous craftsman, perfectionist to the extreme, piercing eyes that stuck in a piece of matter with his hands is able to draw a soul, a feeling, one in allegory, an experience that, after him, many people live. The sculptor usually introverted character, lover of solitude that permeates his workshop, possessing a sensitivity and an inner life only seen through the mud, plaster, marble, of the stucco, stone, iron or any material apparently lifeless.
Through this, the first retrospective! - Made of Jose Limon, one of the great Catalan sculptors of his time, witnessing the smell of a taste of the century historicist-those led types nostalgic led types air to recover the past glorious often invades the end of a period-while walking towards the firm symbolism when we get it in the twentieth century. The exhibition is organized chronologically, so can appreciate the evolution of the artist who lived two centuries straddling between two ways of seeing the world.
We put ourselves in position: In the late nineteenth led types Barcelona city was booming; for almost fifty years that had demolished its walls and the city grew steadily from Cerdà plan. New districts were born and sculpture, led types among her the Joseph Llimona-, splashed some of its corners, places and new facades embellishing the space configured the new city. "The grief", the "Monument to Doctor Robert" are some of the pieces that José Limón created and exhibited in public urban space, and we can now study in detail thanks to the exhibition. But the pleasure I found in that symbolist festival that fills some of the rooms of MEAM with allegories that Lemon was a melancholy, sadness, serenity or melancholy feelings face of woman often through the exquisite white marble reach us safe, firm, indisputable to the bottom of the soul.
Manuel Brunet was already in 1932, who wrote to "Advertising" a phrase that, without a doubt, the future predicted: "Within a few years, a sculpture of Jose Limon will evoke all a time. "
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