Sculpture Kyros Horse in patinated bronze, made by the Spanish sculptor Carlos Mata. Series 219/275.
In his sculptures of horses and bulls, the influence of Etruscan drawing is especially noticeable. Made in bronze or cast iron, the patina he gives them stands out, which has become his unmistakable seal. In them, the artist works with basic forms, which were constant in his work. He reduced the figures to silhouettes of pure and stylized lines, and it is precisely this purity that makes the warmth of the texture of the bronze shine even more, competing in prominence with the shape of the piece itself. Therefore, they are always very flat figures, created to be seen in profile.
Carlos Mata was a Spanish sculptor, born in 1949 in Palma de Mallorca and died in Barcelona in July 2008. He was trained at the Academy of Art in Barcelona and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts in Paris, cities in which he lived and worked alternately. His work has spread all over the world and some of them are part of important international collections in public and private entities in Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, England and the United States. He has participated in numerous international contemporary art fairs and has been selected and awarded in numerous painting and sculpture competitions.
He is especially recognized for his representations of animals, in bronze and glass, especially horses and bulls, although one can also find among his production some city, steel structures ..... However, he also made some paintings, collages and toys, and even founded a jewelry brand.
He chose materials such as iron or bronze for the plasticity they show in adapting to the original model worked by hand, reflecting the warmth of manual work with their arid and irregular, rough surfaces, inviting to the touch. His sculptures in unpolished cast iron take advantage of their austere and rough qualities in figurative stylizations of a certain primitivism and archaeological evocation, generally taking as a theme animals, such as bulls or horses. The same schematic intention can be seen in his painting, of a neo-figurative, planist type, with a contained and reduced chromatic range.
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