It wasn’t long ago that Susana Solano first appeared on the scene—one distinctly remembers her canvas hangings exhibited at the Fundación Miró in Barcelona in 1981. And now, contemplating the recent sculptures shown here, we are undoubtedly confronted with some of the most interesting and solid work done in Spain in the past five years.

Since the works in canvas, with their irregular pleats and bags, Solano has gone on to tackle volumetric problems in wood, and more recently iron, a traditionally “tough” medium with which she has achieved surprising results. In those first iron pieces Solano used