“There is no difference between poetry and sculpture.”
Apel • les Fenosa i Florensa (Barcelona, May 16, 1899 - March 25, 1988) was a Catalan sculptor with a deep creative connection to El Vendrell. Fenosa began his studies at a municipal school in Barcelona and worked at the studio of the sculptor Enrique Casanovas.
In 1921 he settled in Paris, his genuine anti-militarism prompting him to leave Catalunya in order to avoid performing his military service. The Spanish Civil War kept him in exile until the late 1957. In 1982, Is granted Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the following year Legion of Honor granted by the French government.
The Apel • les Fenosa Foundation is housed in the Casa del Portal del Pardo in the town of El Vendrell, which had first captivated the sculptor in the late 1950’s during a trip throughout Catalunya after a long absence. The house was Fenosa’s summer studio until his death in 1988.
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