Vic, Barcelona, 1944
Rosa Serra belongs to the generation that led to a break in the sculpture olotina by the three-dimensionality discovered under the influence of the great teacher, sculptural Lluís Curós. Without ever losing her personality and style, Rosa Serra was seduced by artists such as Clara, Maillol, and Michel Angelo..
In 1952 she moved to Olot, where she currently works and resides.
In 1970 he entered the Llus Carbonell academy, where she studied drawing and painting, and two years later he entered the Olot School of Fine Arts, where for three years she studied drawing, ceramics and painting and engraving.
She is known for her beautiful patinas, which make her bronze pieces seem like they are carved out of stone.
She had his first individual exhibition in Barcelona in 1972, and from 1973 she devoted herself to sculpture.
ln her work, influenced by Henry Moore, dominates the risky line of curves rubicund in nude figures, roundness rotund and harmonica that just by defining the identity of most of their production, both public and private.
In 1976 she received the Sculpture award at the III Biennial of Bilbao.
In 2008 he received the Cross of Sant Jordi from the Generalitat of Catalonia
In 1985 she worked in the Suite Olympique, a collection of a total of 38 bronze sculptures that represent the Olympic sports and that are installed in the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland.
She has made sports-themed sculptures for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
In 2000 the company Nike commissioned her to create a statue of Tiger Woods for Oregon.
She is also the author of the Olympic Suite of the IOC headquarters in Lausanne and of various pieces located in the Olympic Park of Sely in the Asian Olympic Committee, in Kuwait.
Her public work now appears all over the world - from Miami to Rio to Singapore, and her gallery exhibitions have taken place from Japan to New York to Monte Carlo.
