Manuel Lagoa

Manuel Lagoa, originally from Spain, lives and works in France where he has shown, and still shows, his sculptures in various solo and group exhibitions.

Since 1989, his artistic curriculum includes a number of exhibitions, events, participation in major projects, residencies and installations.

He lived in Italy between 1989 and 1993 where he profited from the presence of the famous artist Miguel Berrocal. It was then he began a period of research and experimentation in form and in the use of materials of opposing qualities such as metal and glass. By fusing glass bottles he made such installations as his “Line of Fire”, a flame on a six-meter wick, “Qu’attendez-vous?” and “Tetes” that he completed in Oldenburg, Germany in 1993.

In 1990 he showed his work “Metal and Glass” for the first time at the “Graffiti Now Atelier” in Verona. His sculptures, formerly neo-figurative and abstract, were now in a geometric abstraction style. The relationship between the full and the empty, the opaque and the transparent are emphasized. He has abandoned organic forms and plays with instability achieving a perfect equilibrium of form. Glass becomes the sustaining element of the sculptural unity.