José Catala (1959) - Amsterdam

José Adalberto Catalá Yuste - José Catalá, Madrid 1958.

Title: Amsterdam

Medium: Oil on panel

Size: 35 x 45 cm.

Size as framed: XX

Year: 2000

Signature: "J. Català 2000"

Provenance:

- Property the artist.
- Sold to Art and Nature Gespart S. L. Madrid.
- Sale judicially authorized due to Bankruptcy, Commercial Court No. 6 of Madrid.
- Private collection, Spain.

Condition: good, see photos.

About the artist:

José Adalberto Català is an artist based in Spain whose paintings have been exhibited nationally. Through his various works, he invites viewers to travel to an "idyllic and fantastic world". Català's distinctive fantastical realist compositions are often imbued with feelings of emptiness and loneliness. He creates mainly with tempera, oils and acrylics.

José Catalá Yuste, a self-taught painter from Madrid, began drawing from his childhood, first
with graphite, then watercolor and currently with oils. In his long career, he has done more than
fifty individual and collective exhibitions in Spain, Europe and Asia. with more than half
hundred awards, highlighting his three Medals of Honor from the BMW Award (Madrid) in
1995, 1997 and 1998 and the “Virgen de las Viñas” Acquisition Award (Tomelloso) in 2005, 2013, 2014,
2015, 2017 and 2018.

“Painting, and art in general; It is not an end, it is a means, the means that the soul has to
Express oneself. I think that any theme can become suggestive to be represented by
a pencil or brush. You only have to find the plastic message that exists in the
images that throughout our lives appear before our eyes, including
simpler and less imagined events” (J. Catalá, 2023) .

“…he captures with equal passion everything that surrounds him, a face, a rural or urban landscape,
awakening in the viewer nostalgia, loneliness and a very special melancholy. …it keeps
placidly in that enormous charge of nostalgia that is felt above all when he paints,
emanated from a drawing that, with the rigor and faded gesture that characterizes its realistic invoice,
It affects a frequent presence of emptiness and loneliness. In the plastic trajectory of José Catalá
there is an almost existential drive for the ordering of space in time” (José Antonio Tinte,
from the magazine El Punto de las Artes) . Source:

https: //ffe. es/Rail. Arte/catalogo. Rail. Arte/files/downloads/catalogo_Rail. Arte. pdf

See also;

https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=6zo. YLl. Cf. Rn8

Collective exhibitions:

1994 - Toisón Art Room.
- Durán Award.
- Army Award. Buena Vista Palace (Madrid)
1995 - San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts, IX BMW Prize.
1996 - Ágora Room 4 (Castellón) .
- San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts, 10th BMW Prize.
1997 – Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando XI BMW Prize and Nolde Gallery (Navacerrada) .
1998 - Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando XII BMW Prize
1999 - National Exhibition of Plastic Arts (Valdepeñas) .
2000 - XXIII International Sports Biennial.
2001 - Barcelona Art Fair ARTEXPO.
2002 - Army Award, Buena Vista Palace, (Madrid)
2003 - Seville Contemporary Art Fair and Porto Fair
2004 - Feriarte Valencia, Lisbon Art Fair and Arte-Santander
2005 - “Holland Art Fair” (The Hague)
2005 - Antonio López Torres Museum (Tomelloso, Ciudad Real) and “Stockholm Art Fair” Stockholm
2008 - ENGRAVING AND PAINTING from the 19th to the 21st century. Railway Museum (Madrid)

Exhibitions only:

1993 – National Railway Museum (Madrid) .
1995 – Toisón Art Gallery (Madrid) .
1996 – Infantas Gallery (Madrid) .
1997 – “Dean” Art Gallery (Valencia) .
1998 – Railway Museum (Madrid) .
2000 – Infantas Gallery (Madrid)
2005 - Gaudí Room (Madrid) .
2007- Floridablanca Room (S. Lorenzo de El Escorial) .
2010- Floridablanca Room (S. Lorenzo de El Escorial) .
2012- One hundred years of Madrid Metro, Retiro Station exhibition hall (Madrid)

Prices:

Ø 1980 First prize in the 18th “Madrid Corners and Landscapes” Contest.
1995 Medal of Honor IX BMW Award
Ø 1997 Medal of Honor XI BMW Award.
First prize “ENRIQUE GINESTAL” (Talavera de la Reina) .
Ø 1998 Medal of Honor at the XII BMW Award.
Ø 1998 Second Prize “MUTUA GROUP” Award (Barcelona) .
Acquisition Award of the Valdepeñas National Contest.

Ø 1999 Valdepeñas National Contest Acquisition Award.
Medal of Honor National Contest “CIUDAD DE TUDELA”
Ø 2002 Army Award Finalist (Madrid)
Ø 2005 Acquisition Award “VIRGEN DE LAS VIÑAS” (Tomelloso, Ciudad Real)