Manuel Solà · Horitzó singular

Born in Barcelona in 1950, he studied art at La Llotja School of Arts and Crafts. Gifted with a marked artistic temperament and great intellectual curiosity, he also studied set design at the Institut del Teatre. Like many young people of his generation, the social and political concerns of the 1970s and 1980s marked his creative work with paintings that were socially committed to the political ideals of the time.

His universe is populated by obsolete objects, such as old logs, rusty iron and a multitude of seashells, with which he constructs curious artefacts imbued with great symbolism.

Although his artistic beginnings were in painting, he quickly abandoned it due to an existential crisis to devote himself entirely to sculpture. The constant evocation of primitive art and the magic inherent in this memory take us back to an archaic and poetic world.

With his whole body, heart and soul, Manuel Solà dedicates himself to the cause of art in order to construct a humanistic and ethical discourse anchored in contemporary life that challenges the malice of a globalised world that shamelessly cultivates individualism and materialism.

Art gives life, more life, and in the case of Manuel Solà, to the extreme. The line between living and surviving is so fragile that it is moving. 'I am,' he exclaims, a marginal artist who struggles to probe the underground, the invisible, the reason behind things.

Previously, since 2014, the following artists have exhibited at Parc dels Estanys: Emili Armengol, Alberto Gómez Ascaso, Jaume Roser, Medina-Campeny, Bonaventura Ansón, Josep Canals, Pedro Jordán, Clemente Ochoa, Rosa Serra, Manel Àlvarez, José Luis Pascual and Marzo-Mart, Carles Bros, Ángel Camino, Martí Rom, Santiago Gimeno, Josep Coll, Torrent Pagès, Aramis Justiz, Dolors Puigdemont and Tomàs Pons. From each remaining artist, as a permanent testimony, a piece installed in the same park as part of the Municipal Art Fund.