José María Yturralde

One of the highest examples of Spanish Abstraction, Yturralde emerged within Juan Antonio Aguirre’s “New Generation” or the Valencian “Antes del Arte”, influenced by Op and Kinetic Art. He has always explored links between art and science, inspiring the renown series "Figuras Imposibles”. From 1968, while he was in Madrid, he experimented with computers to generate artworks, signaling the arrival of cybernetic art in Spain, later continuing in Valencia and at the highly respected MIT, where he produced "Estructuras volantes" now part of the Reina Sofía museum collection. In the mid-eighties, he focused on the properties of color, to use chromatic ranges as subtle light variations that impact ones emotions and mind-set. Recently Yturralde has been inspired by Eastern philosophies expressed in minimalist but intense abstract painting combining geometry, color and light.

Submitted by López de la Serna Centro de Arte Contemporáneo