This exhibition is the first and only one that has ever been held for the sculptor, Emili Fontbona (Barcelona 1879-1938). Working between 1895 and 1906, a friend of Xavier Nogués, Pablo Picasso, Marian Pidelaserra, Pere Ysern and others, Fontbona is one of the most representative artists of the post-Modernista period in sculpture. Like his painting colleagues, he broke with the Modernista movement at the end of the century, and now advocated a new artistic approach with a "primitive" sensibility. If he had not been debilitated by an illness that distanced him from the world of art, he would have coincided fully with contemporary European work that was being considered the new aesthetics at the dawn the twentieth century.

The exhibition displays all his sculptures - his output was scant- that have been conserved, as well as a large number of drawings and some portraits of the artist painted by friends such as Pablo Picasso, Eusebi Arnau and Marià Pidelaserra.