The sculptor Lluís Cera (Barcelona, ​​1967) is one of the outstanding figures of contemporary Catalan sculpture. Trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, ​​he was already a specialist in working with stone thanks to the fact that he belonged to a lineage of artisans with this mineral. Since the early nineties he has developed a solid and recognized artistic career, with exhibitions in galleries, museums and international fairs in Europe, America and Asia.

His work is characterized by a deep technical mastery of noble materials, such as marble, granite, bronze, iron or wood. Through these materials, often associated with solidity and permanence, Cera creates sinuous and organic forms that seem to challenge the rigidity of the material and thus generate an expressive tension between weight and lightness, between balance and movement.

One of the most unique features of his sculptural language, with its lyrical and poetic accent, is the combination of literature, and also music, with three-dimensionality; the appearance of engraved texts or scores applied or carved on stone or other materials is common. This dialogue between volume, matter and sign opens his work to a poetic territory where the sculptural form also becomes a space of memory, rhythm and evocation. Cera challenges the limits of the materials he uses in his pieces and manages to endow the solid and rigid matter with sensuality and voluptuousness, where the recurrent use of knots evokes the possibility of unraveling what seems impossible.

This exhibition at the Palau de la Música Catalana, together with the Villa del Arte gallery in Barcelona, ​​where he permanently exhibits, highlights this musical dimension of his work: a work that, from sculpture, shares with music the search for harmony, tension and cadence, in a suggestive dialogue between plastic forms and the sound universe.