Enric M. Catalá

ENRIC M. CATALÁ (Valencia, 1949).
"The young Mozart".
Silkscreen on paper. Final art / colour proof. Published by the Ibero-Swiss printing house.
Presents dry stamp of the Ibero-Swiss printing house.
Measurements: 65 x 49 cm.
In Spain, the Ibero-Swiss company hosted the main Spanish artists from the mid-1960s to the 1990s. The serigrapher José Llopis made this firm an indisputable reference in terms of artistic printing. From artists linked to pop art, optical art or geometric art to Zóbel or Tàpies, and including artists with a clear political commitment such as Renau, Genovés, Equipo Crónica or Equipo Realidad, they all found Ibero-Suiza's silkscreen printing an ideal technique for their projects: they liked its industrial character, its procedures, the effects and nuances obtained, and the affinity of all this with the resources of the media.
He has a degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where he has also completed doctoral studies.
He has furthered his studies in drawing in Holbaeck, Denmark; incision and intaglio techniques in Urbino, Italy; oil painting in Welshpool, Wales and Modern Art History in Cambridge, England, Wagner College, New York, Regios College, Denver, Colorado and the University of San Francisco, California.
He has exhibited in Valencia (Val-i-30), Torrent (La Torre), Castellón (Cáñamo), Xàtiva, Tarragona (La Rambla), Art Xerea (Valencia)) and in the municipal galleries of Vinalesa, Eliana, Alfara del Patriarca, Cuchara, Sueca, Xàtiva, Almussafes and La Pobla de Vallbona.
His work can be found in private collections in Valencia, Barcelona, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Detroit, Cristiansand, among other Valencian cities and towns. His work also appears in the MARTÍNEZ-GURRICABEITIA collection of the UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA and in the Salvador Allende Museum in Chile.
It has been said about him:
Beyond geometric abstraction, Enric M. Català's engravings go beyond minimalist coldness and connect with the tradition of Mondrian or Klee and a very special reference to Mark Rothko and Joan Miró, in the formal and essential aspect : the rhythm of the colours and the weft of the composition. In his own words, the author tries "to reconnect abstraction so that it retains its austerity and great ambition while becoming much more specific in its content... My position is not puritanical, it is complete. Deeply sensual..."