The commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Antoni García Lamolla (Barcelona, 1910 - Dreux, France, 1981) represents an excellent opportunity to explore in depth the profile of this painter's role as one of the key figures of the surrealist avant-garde, while giving us the chance to highlight other aspects of his artistic career, marked by the Spanish Civil War and a lengthy exile in France. In this regard, Lamolla's personality and artistic career become paradigms, a mirror reflecting the difficult circumstances which affected a whole generation of artists, who found their output, closely tied to the renewal of the plastic arts in the thirties, radically truncated by armed conflict.
