Augusto Agero (Madrid, 1880 - Paris, 1947), an almost forgotten sculptor today, belongs to that generation of Spanish artists who, at the beginning of the century, arrived in Paris, then the capital of art. A friend of Picasso, with whom he met at the School of Painting in Madrid, Agero will occupy, like the man from Malaga, a home-workshop in the building known as the Bateau-Lavoir, from where he will contribute to the genesis of a type of sculpture. Cubist, inspired by Iberian sculpture and African art. As a participant in the different Cubist exhibitions, Agero will be considered by Apollinaire as one of the main Cubist sculptors, along with Duchamp-Villon, Archipenko and Brancusi, a new emerging paradigm: the paradigm of the complexity. Based on the new concepts that articulate this paradigm, the author weaves together an extraordinary story in which the deep relationships (system...read more