Free paintings, because they were born as an invisible sickle to mow down their ghosts. Paintings that are urban posters where we can find allusions to religion, power, art, sex , as well as anger​​ A lot of anger and despair .

The series of graffiti painted between 1988 and 1991 show us the disillusionment of many members of a socially and politically committed generation upon seeing how their ideals of justice and freedom were subjected, at the end of the 1980s, to a clumsy use of politics, oriented towards the personal benefit of those who manage it and not towards the deepening of personal and collective freedoms.

In 1988, Spain experienced a moment of paradox. The left, which had gained government, had disappointed many in their expectations of a change that had been announced as the birth of a new era of greater justice, prosperity and peace. This disenchantment leads Manuel Solà to make his revolution with canvas, brushes and oil to express everything he has seen, suffered and enjoyed in the streets of the Raval neighborhood of Barcelona where he lives and works. The street as a metaphor for life

Everywhere, empty promises that unleash his artistic spirit in works that, seen through today’s eyes, are a personal diary, but also the chronicle of an era, of a disenchantment of a time, of a country.