Provenance: Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist

ABOUT THE WORK

Contemporary sculptors such as Castrillo see through their works in a new light, the sculptures were not so much to “decorate” spaces in the traditional manner as to function in them and to be both aesthetically pleasing and practical. This implied a direct relationship between sculpture and the space in which it was housed. This work is typical of Castrillo’s Cubist sculpture, showing how he manipulated the expected relations between space and solid. This sculpture is built up of planar elements with a great economy of form, and space has an important constructive role. Throughout his career, Castrillo has worked in both micro and macro forms, as in jewelry with its small, exquisite forms and in public sculptures of towering dimensions.