20^th Century Spanish

After training at Manuel Coloma’s sculpture studio, Lechuga furthered his art education at the School of Applied Arts, the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and the Hoger Instituut voor Schone-Kunsten in Antwerp. In 1978 he obtained a grant from the Fundación Juan March and in 1970 a grant for the Promotion and Investigation of Visual Arts and New Forms.

He had his first solo exhibition in 1970. His sculpture, generally made from cast bronze and materials derived from resin, iron, concrete and wood, focuses on the representation of living bodies. His initial interest in living organisms at an embryo stage gave way to a predilection for the world of spiders. After that, he entered into a phase of highly ironical works consisting of groups of anthropomorphic beings with aesthetic elements borrowed from primitive sculpture, Giacometti, and Surrealism. He is also fond of using recycled materials, such as doors, stairs and windows, using them to create powerful volumes.