Mompó is one of the most significant members of Spain’s generation of abstract artists from the 1950s. Without being ascribed to any particular group or style, he began investigating in the field of figuration, evolving from there to pure abstraction, tinged with the Mediterranean light that flooded his works more and more.

Hernández Mompó’s earliest sculptures date from 1981, and were created in response to his ongoing quest for new supports for his works, such as PVC, a material that provided him with a surface on which to apply graphic signs in extremely shiny pure colours. Named Alaró after the town in Mallorca where he made them, these works stand halfway between painting and sculpture, between figuration and abstraction, responding to his wish to find a form that could merge art and life. They are objects to be seen from all sides and to be placed in open spaces. Later, their see-through background became once again opaque, but the cuts in the either steel or aluminium surface provided depth and interesting plays of light.

Ventana abierta combines all the above-described features. Made with a single sheet of steel he cuts and folds with the idea of occupying a space, unlike other sculptures by this artist this particular one presents a less linear drawing, and the colours construct planes that strive to create a third dimension, a free development of forms opening up like a window onto nature.