© Jean Marie del Moral
The work of Baltasar Lobo, a Spanish sculptor and member of the Nouvelle École de Paris, celebrates the female body. The artist’s discovery of the works of Picasso, Dali, or Miro in the 1930s was a revelation. His representation is then simplified, in the spirit of the works of Constantin Brâncuși, Jean Arp, and Henry Moore. It adopts an archaic character and proceeds by accentuating the subject’s non-figuration around the themes of the female nude, motherhood, and bathers. Lobo’s sculptural language is characterised by a purity of form, smooth, cylindrical, and elongated volumes, and the reflection of the light.