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Carlos Mata works his sculptures with a very personal language.
The sculptor searches the essence of forms reducing to reality
his pure lines. When you first look at his work, you will be
surprised by the tenderness of his sculptures. It is as if the
artist had extracted the best part of the work he is presenting
us (animals, people, things) to make us enjoy just the mere
moment of reckoning with them.
Carlos Mata was born in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) in 1949.
His influences come from the ground and the landscape. Many
of his works have the aspect of mud, a material, which has been
worked by various generations of people from the island. The
subtle and special sensitivity of this born-by-the-Mediterranean
Sea sculptor establishes an incredible combination of grace,
style, and elegance in his work.
Mata shows in his sculptures the creativity of the villages
as well as the mysterious way of the prehistoric art. One can
easily see the beautiful bulls and cows, the stylized horses,
which show the symbolic meaning of the animal. In fact, all
or almost all of his sculptures symbolize a wish of freedom
and the end to limitations of the human spirit. . Every single
work is mysterious and allows the viewer to uncover this hidden
meaning or just to simply gaze at the form and line.
Carlos Mata's sculptures are based on the memories of his childhood
as he makes an effort to obtain the original image that he could
see when he was a child. This artist is able to find the original
reality that defined his psychic along time ago. This is why
his sculptures are so simple and without many details, only
some simple profiles, dark and essential, treated very primitively.
They seem playful. but hide an intense concept.
Mata's work is leading us towards his universe of memories, his experiences,
his nostalgic feelings which evoke an irrecoverable past, but
present in our minds. He is very interested in the archeologist aspect as if our memories were remains, to see the impact they
have in our lives now, to see the trace, the sign.
Carlos Mata was classically trained in Barcelona and Paris, but does
not consider himself to be a conceptual artist.
"I like animals very much. I see in bulls the last remains of the cult of Mithras.
I feel deeply the Mediterranean culture and am fascinated by
the purity of sculpture."
There are thousands of hours of work behind the apparent simplicity of the form. Talking about this,
the artist says that he is making a spatial definition that
has nothing to do with reality. Mata's horses keep their pride,
but not their volume. His works are outlined but continue to
have their characteristic features. The animal shapes represent
the old collective memory of ancient cultures, which are totally
related to our current reality.
His work has been exhibited in international art fairs and
represented in different collections in public and private entities
in Spain, France, Europe, South America and the United States.
GALLERY M exclusively represents the sculpture of Carlos Mata
in the Rocky Mountain Region.
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