22. Eduardo Carretero

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22. Eduardo Carretero

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Eduardo Carretero was born in Granada in 1920 and is one of the most outstanding Spanish sculptors of the 20th century. He is part of the so-called post-war generation, along with artists such as Antonio Rodríguez Valdivieso, Carlos Pascual de Lara, and Jorge Oteiza, among others.

This piece is a sculptural portrait of his friend, Francisco Moreno Galván, made in concrete. Although it has a rough appearance, this figurative sculpture is clearly larger than life-size, whereby the importance of the character is reaffirmed, emphasized, and imposed.

We see a Francisco in a stage of maturity. In a way, he is reminiscent of what he himself asked for: to be remembered as "a good man who never did wrong to anyone." José María Moreno Galván wrote the following words about Carretero in the magazine Triunfo:

"Almost all of Carretero's sculptural work is characterized thematically by a kind of tendency to crowding [...]. One could say that all of it is like a hymn to solidarity [...] This sculpture is indebted to figuration for nothing more than initial guidelines to organize itself into form. But each form has the rhythms and the internal coherence that a well-achieved structure requires."