JOSÉ MARÍA YTURRALDE – LOGOS Y MITOS
2018-08-27This exhibition about scientific and cultural knowledge in the West that arises from a mythos centred on “the ambition of overcoming opposites, including also a synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity”. In the words of the artist: “My intention in these paintings is to unite concepts that come from Western culture with images whose influence is clearly Eastern and to establish relationships, parallels, and corollaries between their meanings. For me, the wisdom, the spirituality, that comes from both cultures is universal as both merge at the deepest level”.
This selection of new paintings speaks eloquently of Yturralde’s creative vitality both through their monumentality and their chromatic sensuality—Fernando Castro Flórez’s terms to describe the work of this painter so crucial to Spanish abstract art. The beauty of light and its variations are central to his reflections about overflowing the limits of painting towards immateriality, and the path of the sublime, the void and the infinite leads us to a creative spirituality which can be associated with the symmetrical resonances of mandalas and the expressive conciseness of haikus.
Opposite – Installation view
Exhibition runs through to September 12th, 2018
Galería Javier López & Fer Francés
Guecho, 12 B
28023 Madrid
Spain
