Fallen Man With Door

In the 1960s, Pablo Serrano's work was impregnated with humanism. After creating his series Vault Men (Hombres Bóveda) he would deepen his interest in the human being in his follow-up series, Men With Door (Hombres con Puerta), started in 1966, which this work belongs to. As opposed to previous works, in this piece the human figure is accentuated and a new formal and conceptual element appears: the door. Connected with several hinges at the deformed torso, a polished concave area is left visible—a brilliant, hopeful, absolutely spiritual interior. With this door Pablo Serrano expresses a desire for communication "in the opaque man, an animal of uncertainty, this mess of meat and bone, who can communicate through the door, the door which is the word and feeling, a light of communication which illuminates this space."