Alberto Solsona

ALBERTO SOLSONA (Barcelona, 1947 - Madrid, 1988).
Untitled, 1986.
Silkscreen on paper, copy 3/150.
Signed and justified by hand.
Measurements: 50 x 65 cm.

Alberto Solsona studied at the Massana School in Barcelona. In 1970 he moved to Madrid, where he lived until his death. His pictorial work, developed from the end of the sixties to the end of the eighties, goes from a pop art close to critical psychedelia to a sensorial and serene abstraction with arabesque motifs. Solsona used the language of mass culture and the world of comics to denounce the cultural repression of the end of Franco's regime. Thus, he placed serialized icons and invented characters in surrealist backgrounds with a strong playful component. He developed a professional activity in the editorial field as an illustrator for Bruguera, among other Spanish, English and German publishers. He illustrated popular series such as La Familia Telerín, classic children's stories and literary works such as Walt Whitman's Poems (La Mota, 1978). After Solsona's death, in 1991 Fernando Almela created the Alberto Solsona Foundation, which in 2009, upon Almela's death, was renamed the Almela-Solsona Foundation.