Creative, naturalist, independent and humanist. Any definition of the Castellon-born artist Juan Ripolles falls short. So it is worth discovering his essence through his own work. A complete collection of the artist's work has been installed at the Umbracle in Valencia's City of Arts and Sciences, a free exhibition running until 30th March.
The collection includes 20 large-scale sculptures created by this Castellon-born artist. Through his work, we can discern the renowned sculptor's identification with nature, man and the complexity of his relationship with his surroundings, described in arbitrary and ingenuous sculptural forms, which the artist reformulates with the vitalistic and optimistic attitude of each figure.
Ripolles, considered one of Spain's most international contemporary artists, is exhibiting a collection created between 2006 and 2009 which consolidates the use of figuration in his artistic language following some of his works in previous years with a higher degree of abstraction.
