JOSE MARÍA CAL CV
Name: Jose María Cal
Place of residence: Spain. Address: (Valencia, Spain)
Email: josemariacal@gmail.com
Phone: 605989172
Web: www.josemariacal.com
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Languages: Spanish, English
Artistic training:
- Masterclass. Plenearist Landscape Painting. 2023. By Helena Blankenstein,
Fine arts graduate.
- Industrial Designer by EASD Valencia School of Art and Design. Year 1986.
- Painting course at the Barreira Art School, Valencia. Year 76.
Memberships:
- From 2023. ArteEnred Group
Representation in galleries:
- Agaphe Management Barcelona Gallery
- Pitijopos Gallery Sanlúcar de Barrameda
Solo Exhibitions:
- 2024 - Collective Exhibition February 10 to February 25. Pitijopos Gallery, Sanlúcar de
Barrameda, Cadiz.
- 2023 - VI Biennale of Valencia. Ciutat Vella Oberta 2023. November 14 to
January 07, 2024. Selected.
- 2023 - Collective Exhibition. Circuit Artíst. Santa Cristina d´Aro. Girona. November
December 2023.
- 2023 - Collective Exhibition October- November, 2023. Burjassot Cultural Center. Topic: “A
Sorolla’s purpose.” Valencian Culturarte Association.
- 2023 - Collective Exhibition June 23. Cuttoo Gallery Madrid.
- 2023 - Contemporary Art Collective Spring 23. Circuit Artístic. Picasso Hotel Gallery.
Toroella de Montgrí. Catalonia.
- 2023 - XVI International Exhibition Virtual Museum Mundoarti 01-03-2023
- 2022 - Selected Collective Exhibition La Salita, work Bodegons01 13.11.22
- 2022 - Collective Exhibition Abartium Gallery. Calldetenes (Barcelona). Construction site:
Bodegons02 15.11.22
- 2021 - IX International Exhibition Virtual Museum Mundoarti 02-11-2021
- 2021 - Selected Collective Exhibition Feeding ArtWorld 2021
- Competitions:
- Puçol Village Painting Competition. Year 2013
- El Puig outdoor quick painting contest. Year 2009
- Bancaja painting competition. Year 2008
- Plastic artist:
Artistic works in acrylic and oil. Personal style: contemporary painting. Figuration-abstraction. Acrylic, oil and oil pastel. Work supports: canvas or wooden board and DM on a wooden frame. Works for individual and group exhibitions and commissioned works.
- Industrial designer:
- Design and development of models for the company Maquindus Industrial, S.L. Year 1984
- Tile design for the Zirconio ceramic factory. Year 1985
- Furniture design for Mainaka, Zaragoza. Year 1987.
- Design and development at the company SRG Global, Lliria, Valencia. Automotive components. Clients: BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, Opel, Renault, Land Rover, Jaguar, Seat, Ford... 23 years, from 1986 to 2009. Expert in computer design (CAD).
Jose María Cal is
a Valencian plastic artist. He currently has his painting studio in
the small town of Petrés, Valencia (Spain). Surrounded by mountains
and nature, it is the perfect space to develop his artistic work. He
has lived in the city of Valencia, Spain. He also in the Valencian
towns of Xabia, El Puig, Puzol, Tabernes Blanques and
Petrés.
Artistic formation
- Masterclass. Plenearist
Landscape Painting. 2023. Taught Helena Blankenstein,
degree in
fine arts.
- Industrial Designer from the School of Applied Arts
of Valencia (current School of Art and Higher School of Design).
-
Painting course at the Barreira Art School, Valencia. Year.
Youth
and childhood
Because of his love and gift for painting, his
father enrolled him in the Barreira Academy of Fine Arts in the city
of Valencia. The painters he most admired as a child were Dalí,
Picasso and Miró. He then made small surrealist paintings where the
Universe was always present. To create his world, she painted and
decorated all the walls and closets in his room. Later and due to his
inclination towards the artistic, he studied Industrial Design in the
city of Valencia. There he learned to really paint. He received
classes in nude from life, drawing of the human figure, painting,
materials, composition, perspective, study of tonal values,
development of artistic projects, etc. All the students went out with
the teacher to exhibitions in art galleries in Valencia.
In
his Product Design studies, he painted watercolors of landscapes for
a store in Valencia that sold paintings and drawings. He also worked
for a couple of years drawing all kinds of component plans in a
plastic bottle manufacturing line in Manises.
For twenty-three
years he worked as a design engineer in an automobile components
factory, where he made hundreds of drawings and creative studies with
materials such as temperas, pastel pencils and markers in the
development of his work. During that stage he was able to acquire an
apartment in the city of Valencia and build his painting studio.
There he was able to develop his first major works in acrylic painted
on the floor and in a process of researching techniques with the use
of materials such as marble dust and plaster. It was in the 2000s.
His artistic influences in that period were Spanish painters such as
Miquel Barceló, Miguel Angel Campano, Mompó, Gordillo and Jose
María Sicilia. Later, during his time as a writer, he drew and
illustrated all the graphic images contained in his travel, cooking
and hospitality books.
Pictorial techniques and formats
After
many years using acrylics in his paintings, he began using oil in
combination with acrylic. He studied and researched glazes and glacis
in oil. He used and tested different grades of varnishes in
percentages of alkyd media, turpentine essence and poppy oil. Total
absence of the use of black and white. Currently he is focused on
abstract landscape painting and the use of spatulas, palettes and
stencil printing. Incorporation of the use of white and its enormous
possibilities and the application of broken colors (with burnt umber)
or complementary ones. Much of his work remains semi-abstract, but he
is often drawn outside of his studio by the desire to paint directly
from nature. His creative process is always the same. He starts with
pencil and marker sketches. Study of values (lights and shadows). The
second phase consists of carrying out color studies in small format.
Maximum in A4. In that space he can apply the color without
conditions, intuitively and in total freedom, performing two or three
triads or quadriads of colors in each test. From this small format he
transfers those studies of colors and tones to the large format,
normally a wooden frame with white canvas and in a size of 1 meter x
1 meter.
Sources of creative influence
The artist indicates
that he is fundamentally nourished by nature. The sensations of
enjoyment of it are represented in the form of sketches and written
notes. He also draws from modern and futuristic architectural design,
interior design, cinema and gastronomy.
Solo Exhibitions:
- 2024. Hopper Space. Madrid. April 1 to April 30, 2024. Street Cava Baja, 40 Madrid
Group Exhibitions:
- 2024 - Collective Exhibition February 10 to
February 25. Pitijopos Gallery, Sanlúcar de
Barrameda, Cadiz.
-
2023 - VI Biennale of Valencia. Ciutat Vella Oberta 2023. November 14
to
January 07, 2024. Selected.
- 2023 - Collective Exhibition.
Circuit Artíst. Santa Cristina d´Aro. Girona. November
December
2023.
- 2023 - Collective Exhibition October- November, 2023.
Burjassot Cultural Center. Topic: “A
Sorolla’s purpose.”
Valencian Culturarte Association.
- 2023 - Collective Exhibition
June 23. Cuttoo Gallery Madrid.
- 2023 - Contemporary Art
Collective Spring 23. Circuit Artístic. Picasso Hotel
Gallery.
Toroella de Montgrí. Catalonia.
- 2023 - XVI
International Exhibition Virtual Museum Mundoarti 01-03-2023
-
2022 - Selected Collective Exhibition La Salita, work Bodegons01
13.11.22
- 2022 - Collective Exhibition Abartium Gallery.
Calldetenes (Barcelona). Construction site:
Bodegons02 15.11.22
-
2021 - IX International Exhibition Virtual Museum Mundoarti
02-11-2021
- 2021 - Selected Collective Exhibition Feeding
ArtWorld 2021
- Competitions:
-
Selected III National Painting Contest Bodegas Lairén, Toledo. Year 2024
-
Puçol Village Painting Competition. Year 2013
- El Puig outdoor
quick painting contest. Year 2009
- Bancaja painting competition.
Year 2008
Conceptual Speech
Investigate and develop abstraction in the
landscape. The landscape as the common thread of his work. How to
synthesize and geometrize the figurative forms of the landscape
itself. Contrapositions are the expressive axis. Flatness-volume,
glaze and opacity, complementarity of colors. Saturated and broken
tones. Horizontality-verticality. His compositions tend towards
abstraction, with a clear intention to represent figuration at the
same time. He is interested in the search for light through the
vibrations produced by the successive layers of the palimpests.
Memories and emotions of the child and adolescent that he was are
often present.
Reference figures
His reference artists are
Tapies, Andrew Bird, Richard Dieberkorn, Stephen Duren, Piet
Raemdock, Pauline Agnew, Danny Gretscher and Vered Gersztendorn among
others.
He belongs to the ArteEnred association to be able to
share and exhibit works with them within the Spanish Artistic
Circuit.
Galleries representing Jose María Cal
- Agaphe
Management Gallery Barcelona
- Pitijopos Gallery Sanlúcar de
Barrameda, Cádiz
My studio
STATMENT
Why do I paint?
It is the way to communicate my feelings and sensations to others. In painting, words are superfluous. Everything is expressed for the imagination, enjoyment and interpretation of the spectator. To awaken their dreams, to identify with the work. An artistic work can accompany us in our times of loneliness and help us emotionally. Isn't it fantastic? Painting always looks at us and seeing that it sees us, we see ourselves.
Creative process
I carry out lines of research on subjects that move and motivate me. I photograph with my camera all possible scenarios in urban or natural environments. Also objects of any kind that transmit something to me. Photos with interesting framing, drawings, sketches and written notes on the choice of colours, composition and formal aspects. The final sketch: in pencil and acrylics. I transfer it to scale in the painting. Materials: mainly oil on canvas. Using acrylics to create the backgrounds. Sporadically for final finishes I use oil pastel. Maximum measurements of my works up to 1 meter on both sides.
The theme I explore
Pictorial style: Contemporary art. Figurative abstraction. Nature and landscape inspirations. I am interested in contrasts and the formal composition of paintings. Bright and saturated colors, although also broken. Drama in the light. Play between complementary colors, glazes and opacity of colors. Game between verticality and horizontality. Serenity and inner peace opposing the drama of the work. The theme is based on sensations and experiences of nature: the sea, fields and landscapes and their natural environments.
Memories, melancholy, daydreams. Outlined narratives that invite the viewer to complete them; to create your own world when observing the work.
EXHIBITIONS and COMPETITIONS
By MundoArti
08/04/2024
Hopper Madrid is a Madrid establishment that is part of our exhibition project. They are committed to art and strive to offer spaces for numerous artists to present their projects. This time, they have received many applications from artists to exhibit, and Jose María has been one of those chosen to do so this April 2024.
Jose María Cal graduated in Industrial Design from the EAAOA (Current School of Art and Design of Valencia). He has also completed painting studies at the Barreira School of Valencia and a Plenearist Landscape Masterclass in 2023. He has also trained in printing techniques such as monotype and screen printing. It has been selected for the VI Biennial of Valencia Ciutat Vellla Oberta 2023. In addition, it has held numerous group exhibitions such as the Homage to Joaquín Sorolla in Burjassot for the Culturarte Association in 2023, the Collective Exhibition at the Abartium gallery in Calldetenes, Barcelona or the Exhibition in the Pitijopos Gallery in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz.
Jose María Cal's painting helps him communicate with others. The “painting speaks about oneself.” When we have difficulties relating to ourselves in this artificial world of ours, so prone to loneliness and isolation, plastic work is a magnificent means to show others our life experiences.... Memories and Valencian passages: Jávea, Cullera, Denia , Tuéjar, Chelva, El Saler, Pinedo, La Malvarrosa, Valencia, Alcocéber....
The painting speaks about oneself. When we have difficulties relating to ourselves in this artificial world of ours, plastic work is a magnificent means to show others our life experiences.
Some works by the artist exhibited at Hopper Madrid
In his first artistic steps back in the eighties when he was studying product design, his influences were strongly marked by the artists of that time, Miquel Barceló, Jose María Sicilia or Miguel Angel Campano. It was expressionism. Later, and at the beginning of the 2000s, he began to opt for surrealism.
As a true obligation, the artist needs to create positive spaces where festivity and color serve as the best means to express all his vital desires. In this work the color, light and textures of the palimpests speak, but geometry and abstraction also speak.
We encourage you to discover the work of this artist at Hopper: C. de la Cava Baja, 40, 28005 Madrid; and follow his work on his Instagram profile @pintorjosecal
- 2024 - Collective Exhibition February 10 to February 25. Pitijopos Gallery, Sanlúcar de
Barrameda, Cadiz.
- 2024. VI Biennale of Valencia. Ciutat Vella Oberta 2023. November 14 to
January 07. Selected.
December 2023.
Collective Exhibition October- November, 2023. Burjassot Cultural Center. Topic: “A
Sorolla’s purpose.” Valencian Culturarte Association.
Contemporary Art Collective Spring 23. Circuit Artístic. Picasso Hotel Gallery.
Toroella de Montgrí. Catalonia.
Bodegons02 15.11.22
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