Agustín Cárdenas, sculpture on the edge of abstraction

The important sculpture that Setdart Subastas is putting up for sale these days was made in this especially exciting period for Agustin Cárdenas. The artist had been awarded a scholarship by the Cuban government to study in Paris. In this decade, the mid-1950s, his formative genealogy was redefined, establishing himself as a clear heir to Jean Arp’s abstract biomorphism, but without neglecting his own roots and Wilfredo Lam’s emphasis on the spirituality of the archaic form.