This exhibition is the first and only one dedicated to the sculptor Emili Fontbona (Barcelona 1879-1938). Active between 1895 and 1906, and a friend of Xavier Nogués, Pablo Picasso, Marian Pidelaserra and Pere Ysern among others, Fontbona is one of the most representative artists of sculptural postmodernism. Like his fellow painters, he broke with the modernism of the end of the century and already proposed a new artistic line, with an archaic tone, which, if it had not been prematurely crushed by an illness that distanced him from the world of art, would have fully coincided with the contemporary European achievements considered as the gates of the new aesthetics of the 20th century.

The exhibition shows all the very rare sculptural work that has been preserved to this day, as well as a large number of drawings and some portraits of the artist made by his friends such as Pablo Picasso, Eusebi Arnau or Marian Pidelaserra.