272. ANTONIO DAVILA (1934-1993) Hope Sculpture in white marble. H. 111 cm Antonio DAVILA (1934 - 1993) Born in 1934 in Vigo in Galicia, Antonio Davila, sculptor of international fame is the author of works with simple volumes and strong rhythms, carrying strong rhythms, bearers of symbols. Antonio Davila comes from a line of craftsmen-artists in a country that, as he said himself, "is a forest of granite, there everyone everyone cuts stone". At the age of eleven, he obtained a scholarship that allowed him to become a student at the the School of Arts in Vigo. Other scholarships, obtained throughout his studies other institutions, such as San Fernando, in Santander, Madrid - where he Santander, Madrid - where he obtained his first distinction: a medal at the in the National Exhibition in 1951. Then he went to study abroad, in particular in Rome and Rome and Milan, where he studied with Marino Marini. He then moved to Mexico, where he remained for most of the decade of the 1990s. Possessing a true traveler's soul, he stakes out his his world tour with works. Finally, he returned to Europe and settled in Paris in Paris where a workshop is placed at his disposal by the State. At the end of the years At the end of the 1980s, he spent several years in Reunion Island. Antonio Davila likes the materials he uses for his sculptures. Some are very expensive. All, it chooses them carefully, according to the work envisaged. Among the stones are sandstone, granite; another, with blue grain, comes from Lozere, a third, very hard, from Sweden. The marble, as for him, is most often Italian. It also uses metal (iron, bronze) or wood iron, bronze) or wood, in particular of the tropical gasolines.