Microsoft Word - Jaime Coolabah Lluis Cera


Coolabah, Vol.2, 2009, ISSN 1988-5946 Observatori: Centre d’Estudis Australians, 

Australian Studies Centre, Universitat de Barcelona 

 

 

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Lluís Cera 
 
Barcelona,

 
1967 

He studied at the University of Barcelona, specialising in sculpture, finishing his degree 

in arts in  1993. He is an Associate Lecturer in Fine Arts at Barcelona University.  

 
 

He has held 

numerous solo 

exhibitions in 

Barcelona, Madrid, 

Switzerland and 

Germany. He has 

also won important 

prizes in Spain and 

has participated in 

exhibitions around 

the world including 

the United States, 

South Korea, Switzerland and Germany. 

 
 

Stone language 

 
When sculpting the piece for the exhibition 

I thought about embraces as fundamental 

tools of non - verbal language. This 

wonderful language that does not know 

about languages, which communicates from 

diversity and without distinctions, the 

emotions that our body experiences and, 

that our feelings want to transmit. “A hug 

expresses more than 1.000 words ". 

Embraces have proven their use in all those 

situations in which they exceed words or we 

do not manage to find the suitable ones. 

Embraces know the limits of time and 

space. They do not have a “use by date”, 

since it is enough to close one’s eyes and to 

look into the “boot” of memory, to evoke 

"that" wonderful moment, and to be able, 

like that, to fully re-live through the 

sensation of the authentic hug.