Flower man

The flower man responds to the aim to provide an original variant on a basic theme in sculpture: the idealised statue with the vocation of a canon. The sculptor creates a version of its time, very personal, which represents the naked body of an adolescent, standing, with a life of its own but not with a neoclassical but a symbolic ambition. Lluís M. Saumells Panadés (1915-1999) He held his first exhibition in Tarragona, in 1934, at the Ateneu Tarraconense, and in 1945 moved to Paris with a scholarship from the French government. On his return from France, in 1949, he was appointed the Director of the Studio-School of Art of the Diputació of Tarragona, the city where he would make his home, except for occasional stays in Palma. The artist, using a defined volume presents a minimum of details, creating his own typology with which he would work constantly, with minor variations: expressionist figures of hands with long and thin fingers and angular faces. The same characteristics are also applied to his pictorial and paper production. His commitment to art would result in him becoming a true promoter of culture in the city. Text by Enric Baixeras