CARLOS MATA (Palma de Mallorca, 1949 - Barcelona, 2008).Kyros Horse.Patinated bronze, copy 219/275

CARLOS MATA (Palma de Mallorca, 1949 - Barcelona, 2008).
"Kyros Horse".
Patinated bronze, copy 219/275 CE.
Signed and justified.
Size: 38 x 30 x 9 cm.
In this sculpture Mata works with the basic forms that were constant in his work: objects, people and animals reduced to their essence and silhouettes of pure lines. It is precisely this purity that makes the warmth of the texture of the bronze shine even more brightly, competing in prominence with the shape of the piece itself. Mata's production includes stylised and elegant figures of horses and bulls, inspired by his childhood and youth. Mata chooses materials such as iron or bronze for many reasons, among them the plasticity he demonstrates in adapting to the original hand-worked model, reflecting the warmth of manual work with its arid, irregular, rough surfaces, which invite one to touch, and also with its fluid, smooth, rounded-edged crevices.
A sculptor, painter and engraver, Carlos Mata studied Fine Arts in Barcelona and Paris, cities between which he has shared his residence since his formative years. He held his first solo exhibition at the Canalls gallery in Sant Cugat del Vallés in 1976, and this first exhibition was followed by others in Barcelona, France and Germany. His most recent exhibitions include those held at the Kreisler gallery in Madrid, Casal Soleric in Palma and Can Marc in Girona. His sculptures in unpolished cast iron take advantage of their austere and rough qualities in figurative stylisations of a certain primitivism and archaeological evocation, generally taking animals, such as bulls or horses, as their subject. The same schematic intention can be seen in his painting, of a neo-figurative, planist type with a contained and reduced chromatic range.