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Moisès Villèlia’s playful and experimental sculptures conjure up a world of their own. A poet and musician by training, he developed an artistic approach inspired by the avant-garde sculptures of Àngel Ferrant, Julio González and Alberto, as well as the Russian constructivism of Naum Gabo. As the son of a woodcarver, he used his natural dexterity and the skills he acquired at the rationalist Montessori school to observe nature and work with plants and sea-worn materials. Yet he longed to draw space and articulate voids, and so used wire, river cane and bamboo to create his lightweight, heterogeneous universe of readily adaptable mobiles, sculptures, objects and ethereal beings. As a 1960 review noted, “Everything is harmonious and subtle. His work, though difficult to execute, may be compared to that of spiders or wasps and, once realised, seems scarcely touched by the human hand.”