This exhibition, which focuses on drawing and other work with and on paper by José María Yturralde (born Cuenca, 1942), reflects the uninterrupted line traced by the artist on paper since the outset of his artistic career. It includes drawings, preliminary designs, projects and experiments, kites, preparatory drawings for the various series through which Yturralde has articulated his work, line and colour tests, designs for posters, photographs and his experiments with different printing techniques, from those made using computers at the Centro de Cálculo of the Universidad Complutense to his recent digital prints for the Enso series.
Since the outset of his career in the 1960s to the present day José María Yturralde has considered his work a form of knowledge: travel, study, work, reading, observation and experience have defined the profile of a creator who has chosen to move in a field in which art and science share the same space. The flow of Yturralde's universe can be traced in the wide-ranging body of works that comprise this exhibition, many of them never previously exhibited due to their immediate, process-based and experimental nature. Coexisting with geometry, order and rigour in Yturralde's work on paper are a fascination with colour and light, together with an interrogation of the most radical questions in physics and astronomy: questions concerning space and time, the void, nothingness and everything, concepts through which he has drawn and continues to draw a line that ascends towards the essential.
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