East China's Zhejiang Province hosts a modernistic Spanish art exhibition displaying the work of famous Spanish artist Josep Maria Subirachs from December 11 to 27 in the Westlake Expo Museum of Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang.

The exhibition, with the theme of "Holy Subirachs," is jointly sponsored by the Shanghai International Culture Association, the Zhejiang International Culture Association and the French Euro-Asia Institute.

According to the organizing committee, more than 100 pieces of artwork representing Subirachs' different creative periods, will be on display at the two-week exhibition, including sculptures, oil paintings, sketches and engravings.

Yu Bin, an organizer of the committee said Subirachs enjoys fame equal to Pablo Picasso and Antonio Gaudi in Spain and is viewed as the pioneer of Avant Guard sculpture in Catalonia in the second half of the 20th century.

"Subirachs' art is a synthesis of the current artistic movements, in a complete and harmonious way," said Xi Jingzhi, a professor at the Art Academy of the Tsinghua University, and the exhibition will help Chinese art fans learn how to apprehend and enjoy Western art and draw on the ideas and techniques of the art master.

Subirachs, born in Barcelona in 1927, is the creator of numerous public monuments, including the famous Passion Facade of the temple of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, a city in northeast Spain on the Mediterranean Sea.

He has also proved himself to be an Olympic artist through a number of his works, including the Monument to the Olympic Games of Mexico in 1968 and "Union of East and West," placed in the Olympic Park in Seoul in 1989.

(Xinhua News Agency December 12, 2005)