VALENCIA.- This exhibition, Julio Gonzalez and David Smith. A dialogue about sculpture which has benefited from the inestimable collaboration of the David Smith Estate, sets out to explore the curious cluster of convergences and affinities, borrowings and discrepancies that marked a fruitful and unexpected artistic conversation at a difficult time, when there were already signs of the decisive change of course that was to lead to contemporary sculpture: the work of art set in opposition – not without sharp frictions – to the art object. In other words, the moment of the imaginative affirmation of plastic forms in space, going beyond the servitudes of style, trend, school or conceptual affiliation. An art of free forms as opposed to the customary sequel of restrictive artistic identities and attachments that had been characteristic of what we might call historical European art since the confused conclusion of the nineteenth century. The mere succession of perceptual cor