José María Yturralde

JOSE MARIA YTURRALDE, (Cuenca, 1942).
"Azules", 1999.
Wax on paper.
Signed and dated at the bottom.
Measurements: 29.5 x 21 cm.
The series "Horizons", begun by Yturralde during 2009, is a sample of the exploration and search of color, light and sensory. This horizontal horizon marks the starting point of the sensory experience of the human being, a concept related to the culture of the Tuaregs, and even the Japanese "haiku" (poems). In this way, the artist highlights the infinity of the horizon, associated with the infinite vision of the desert.
During the consecutive years, Jose María Yturralde continues to shape the concept of limit and beginning, also associated with scientific fields such as space-time distortions. In 2014, he continues to add aspects related to the treatment and design of these limits that take the form of vertical and horizontal black lines in the middle of balanced and colorful structures.
D. in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Yturralde is a full member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos. He made his solo debut in 1969 with an exhibition held at the Centro de Cálculo de la Universidad de Madrid. He soon began to receive outstanding awards, including a scholarship to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yturralde has exhibited and lectured all over the world, and has participated in major international group shows since the beginning of his career: São Paulo Biennial (1967), Museum of Fun in Tokyo (1979), Spanish Institute in New York (1996), etc. Particularly noteworthy are his solo exhibitions held at the M.I.T. and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, as well as in various Parisian, Moscow, Spanish, American and Japanese galleries. Yturralde is represented in national and international museums such as the Museum of Abstract Art in Cuenca, the Brooklyn Museum, the Harvard Museum, the Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo, the Novgorod State Museum in Russia, the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.