MANUEL CARBONELL was born in 1919 in Sancti Spiritus Cuba. In his early childhood he started to draw with great success, and this led to his entry into the “Academia de Bellas Artes de Alejandro,” in Havana.
His first efforts as a sculptor were conventional studies in stone and marble. In these early works he shows his rebellion against these materials. Useful experimentation led him to the use of bronze and aluminum, in which materials he found the possibility to express reality, utmost simplicity and motion.
After winning prizes in both national and international exhibitions, he traveled and continued to study in Italy, Spain and France. In Carra, Italy, he carved a Madonna, which won the first prize in a very competitive exhibition. It was in Paris that he found his present personal style.
Carbonell enjoyed great success in his native Cuba, which he subsequently left because he could not live in a country where freedom is suppressed.
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