Entropy, matter and energy with the art of José María Yturralde

More than two-hundred works give rise to the great retrospective of José María Yturralde at the Juan March Foundation Museum in Palma. A line of paper takes the viewer through the different artistic stages of the painter from Cuenca and does so by tracing a line with varied moments, of great abundance when creating and of a time linked to his work, always with the creation on paper that so characterizes the artist.

A tour curated by Manuel Fontán del Junco, Celina Quintas and Marta Suárez-Infiesta, where they leave nothing to chance and the headquarters of the Fundación March in Palma is the place to create a symphony and a continuity of the entire work. Structured chronologically, from the beginnings, through the flying sculptures, to reach the geometric aspect, of order, of space and time, of emptiness and rigor, always linked to the artist's fascination with color and light.

Enso, José María Yturralde (2024)

This scientific art by José María Yturralde, pairs and combines with physics and astronomy, since he is a professor at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in the City of Boston, in addition to the Computing Center of the University of Madrid. Palma will host this exhibition, defined by the Spanish painter himself as "a painting where I am interested in everything", and which can be visited in Palma until May 24, to arrive at the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español in Cuenca from June 12 to October 12, a museum closely linked to the artist from the beginning.

José María Yturralde has exhibited in many corners of the planet since the sixties of the last century and with the passage of the years, of the experiences and of his pictorial moments, he creates the binomial between art and science as two parts of a whole. Works on paper, drawings, models, projects, essays, models for posters, photographs and experiments, all united to create this line of paper. The color welcomes you, but also brings intensity the fusion of white with black, of referring to space and also to infinity, such as the latest series of intertwinings of the last five years.

Figura imposible (serie Triangular), José María Yturralde (1974)

National Prize for Plastic Arts in 2020, it is now time to move the viewer to concepts such as matter, the universe, atoms, in a discourse full of relationships within the work of Yturralde. Science evolves, just as society or the artist's art does, but on this path with a beginning and an end, it always takes on a taste of continuous work with characteristic elements that are repeated at specific moments. He is in constant search for knowledge of very multifaceted areas and is reflected within the exhibition, creating a set of immediate, processual and experimental nature -many works not previously exhibited-, but his geometric art of impossible shapes will always be characteristic of Yturralde.

Dibujo para Homenaje a Pitágoras, José María Yturralde (1975)