A graduate and with a PhD in Fine Arts from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia, José María Yturralde is a full professor of Painting at the Fine Arts Faculty in that city. Highlights of his exceptional biography include his joining the Cuenca Abstract Art Museum team in 1966 and the Antes del arte group in 1967; and his attending the seminars of the Computing Centre at the University of Madrid in 1968. Yturralde’s accolades include a Juan March Grant in 1974 which allowed him to continue studying at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. In 2020, he received the National Award for Plastic Arts.
Yturralde’s first works – his series entitled Geometric Abstraction (1965-1967) – were linked to studying form, perspective and colour and the use of a ‘language of extremely limited vocabulary and rigorous syntax’, to quote the critic and painter Juan Antonio Aguirre. As a result of his time at the Computing Centre, his exploration evolved towards pieces such as Computable Forms (1968-1971) and Impossible Figures (1968-1973), images constructed based on games of perception and false perspectives. From his floating installations and structures in the 1980s, his output has steadily expanded and been enriched with the incorporation of new technologies and the influence of other disciplines such as mathematics and music, to the point where he is considered one of Spain’s most remarkable investigators of plastic art. His series include Preludes (1991-1996) / Interludes (1996-1998) / Postludes (1998-2007) and Enso (2015-2016).
Yturralde is a full member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia. He has exhibited at the São Paulo Biennial (1967); the Venice Biennale (1978); and the Mercosur Biennial (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1999). Solo shows of his work have been staged at the Spanish Contemporary Art Museum in Madrid (1973); the Joan Miró Foundation (Barcelona, 1981); the Valencia Institute of Modern Art (Valencia, 1999); the Caja de Burgos Art Centre (2005); and the Malaga Contemporary Art Centre (2015).
A graduate and with a PhD in Fine Arts from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos de Valencia, José María Yturralde is a full professor of Painting at the Fine Arts Faculty in that city. Highlights of his exceptional biography include his joining the Cuenca Abstract Art Museum team in 1966 and the Antes del arte group in 1967; and his attending the seminars of the Computing Centre at the University of Madrid in 1968. Yturralde’s accolades include a Juan March Grant in 1974 which allowed him to continue studying at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States. In 2020, he received the National Award for Plastic Arts.
Yturralde’s first works – his series entitled Geometric Abstraction (1965-1967) – were linked to studying form, perspective and colour and the use of a ‘language of extremely limited vocabulary and rigorous syntax’, to quote the critic and painter Juan Antonio Aguirre. As a result of his time at the Computing Centre, his exploration evolved towards pieces such as Computable Forms (1968-1971) and Impossible Figures (1968-1973), images constructed based on games of perception and false perspectives. From his floating installations and structures in the 1980s, his output has steadily expanded and been enriched with the incorporation of new technologies and the influence of other disciplines such as mathematics and music, to the point where he is considered one of Spain’s most remarkable investigators of plastic art. His series include Preludes (1991-1996) / Interludes (1996-1998) / Postludes (1998-2007) and Enso (2015-2016).
Yturralde is a full member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia. He has exhibited at the São Paulo Biennial (1967); the Venice Biennale (1978); and the Mercosur Biennial (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1999). Solo shows of his work have been staged at the Spanish Contemporary Art Museum in Madrid (1973); the Joan Miró Foundation (Barcelona, 1981); the Valencia Institute of Modern Art (Valencia, 1999); the Caja de Burgos Art Centre (2005); and the Malaga Contemporary Art Centre (2015).