The sculptor Pablo Serrano was born in Crivillén (Teruel) in 1910. He underwent his initial studies in Saragossa and later continued in the School of Fine Arts of San Jorge, in Barcelona. Having finished his training, he emigrated to America, first living in Argentina and later in Uruguay.

Serrano´s first work are a faithful reflection of his recent period of academic education, until in 1940 he begins a slow evolution towards a sense of baroque expressionism. By 1942 he formed part of the "Paul Cézanne" group of young artists, founded in Montevideo and which aimed to break with conventional routines. This transformation in the work of Pablo Serrano becomes patent in the doors for the Palace of Light (1946), which are already something quite different, in concept and in execution, from the bronze doors for the crypt of the Colegio de San José, in Rosario de Santa Fe, one of his first works in America (1935).

After gaining the Grand Prize of the Biennial of Montivideo(1955), he returned to Spain, where he was to begin a carreer as a sculptor which was to carry him to the most important museums and collections in Europe and America. The very year of his return home he obtained the Grand Prize for Sculpture of the Hispano American Biennial of Art, held in Barcelona, with his head of J. Howard. This was to be the first of a series of portraits of the heads of various of his friends, among them, those of José Camón (1958), of Professor Aranguren (1963) and of Fernando Castro (1968).

Around 1957 Serrano founded, together with other friends, the "El Paso" group, whose work, both individual and collective, would mark contemporary Spanish art.

Another important series of portraits are not from life, but interpretations of people who never posed for the sculptor: those of Goya (1959), the Christ of México (1966) and the heads of Antonio Machado (1966) and of Pablo Picasso (1973). Serrano also made three monuments on a grand scale for three illustrious Spaniards: Miguel de Unamuno (1967-68), Benito Pérez Galdós (1969) and Gregorio Marañón. This series culminates somehow in the "Pity" of the Middleheim Museum in Antwerp (1971-72).

From the studies which arose from his stays in various European countries in 1956, Peablo Serrano developed other themes in the following years: the "Rythyms in Space", the "Burning of the Object" and other works of great abstract value. He also began to use old iron and demolition material in his work, materials with which he formed the series "Domes for man."

In 1967 he had exhibitions in New York and Toronto, where he presented his work "Men with doors," from which the musician Terry Philips created the song "Men with Doors", with lyrics by the sculptor. In the seventies these works culminate in contorted forms with human faces: they are the "Dome Men", and the great dome of Aldeadávila, in which fragments of nature are represented and tools of great symbolic content are included. Serrano also created the group which he called "Lumínicas" (Light Particles) and those of the "Unidades yunta" (Yoke Units). A monumental example of the latter is that which is to be found in the Open Air Museum of Sculpture in the Paseo de la Castellana.

Of international prestige, Pablo Serrano became the holder of many marks of recognition in Spain and other countries. A member of the Societé Européene de Culture, of the Royal Academy of Arts and Letters of Flanders (Belgium) and made Cavalier of Arts and Letters of the French Government, he belonged to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and held the Gold Medal for Fine Arts.

He died in 1985, leaving more than four hundred works to his homeland, which will be installed in the Pablo Serrano Museum in Saragossa.