The sculptor Josep Maria Subirachs, who has died aged 87, is mainly associated with his controversial sculptures for the Passion Facade of Antoni Gaudí's famous Sagrada Família cathedral in Barcelona.
The Guardian's obituary states that he "recovered the human figure in the mid-1960s and developed his mature expressionist style of rough-surfaced, sharp-angled and anguished figures, such as can be seen in the Passion Facade" of the Sagrada Familia.
"Not counting the Passion Facade, he has an extraordinary 70 sculptures in Barcelona's public spaces." I saw some of these works last year, including the Monument to Macià (1991) in Barcelona's central square, the Plaça de Catalunya: "The truncated, upside-down staircase suggests the unfinished construction of Catalonia, while the solid chunks of travertine stone express the solidity of the stateless nation's foundations. Tiny writing on the history of Catalonia and on the life of Francesc Macià, the region's first modern president, covers the blocks of stone."
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