Saturday 14th of April, beginning at 6.30 p.m., Galleria Torbandena opens an exhibition of the Basque artist Carlos Lizariturry, born in 1955.

The artist is among the most representative names of the abstract Basque sculpture. He presents in this exhibition a series of iron sculptures of small and medium sizes, which show the necessity of separation from the artistic model with which the artist has confronted himself until today. In particular, with the work of the sculpture master Eduardo Chillida of whom Carlos has been the assistant for thirteen years.

Large dimension works of Lizariturry can be found in public spaces in Spain, Chile, and Japan. His last collective exhibition was last year for one review in honour of Chillida, at the Bilbao Guggenheim.

These last sculptures show in fact a search for figuration. Apparently a step in the direction of the spectator who is unavoidably involved from the objective perception of the work's subject. In reality by observing the entire production from a wider perspective, a new way of interpreting the abstraction is unveiled: the use of shapes adequate to reality, scientifically repeated, to tell things that have little of reality, just feelings. The new works of Carlos Lizariturry are in this direction: the sculptures are now on the thin border that separates the abstraction from the figurative. They are like an orchestra executing together the same symphony. A symphony of loud percussions when one observes the hardness of iron, dynamic and sure as the game of its volumes, delicate like the thin paper of its collages.

In the exhibition seven sculptures in forged iron, five of them are the studies of large dimension sculptures, along with a wide series of works on paper.

Opening: April 14, 2007, 6.30 pm

Timetable: Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 1 pm and 4 pm - 7.30 pm.