Carlos Mata (°1949, Palma de Mallorca, Spain - † July 2008)

Education:
studied fine arts in Barcelona and Paris

Exhibitions (Selection):
Lille European Art Fair, Lille (FR), 2008
TEFAF, Maastricht, NL, 2007-'08
Artendens, Belfry of Burges, 2004.
Mochental's museum since 2000, Munich, Germany.
Lineart International Art Fair, Ghent, Belgium (each year since 1997).
Salon d'art Contemporain, Luxembourg (1998, 1999.
Sculpture and painting,Buenos Aires, Argentina (2000).
Expo Arte Barcelona, Spain (each year since 1997)
International Art Fair of Sevilla, Spain (1999).
Contemporay Art Fair Valenzia, Spain (1999).
Musuem Manuel Montero, Mondeño, Spain (1993 ).
International Art Fair Vienna, Vienna, Austria, (2001)
Europ. Art, Geneva, Switzerland (2000).
ST'ART, Strasbourg, France (each year since 1999).
Inter Art 98 (Valencia, Spain).
New York Art Expo, USA, (2002, 2003, 2004).
Sofa, Chicago, USA, (2002).
Miami Art Fair, USA, (2000, 2002, 2003).
Art-Sud International Art Fair, Beirut, Libanon (2002).
Hong-Kong Art Fair (2002).

Highlights:

2000: Opening  and inauguration of "Salle Carlos Mata" in the Mochental Museum, Germany

2003: Inaguration of six meter tall "Caballo" in Igualada - Barcelona (Spain)

Carlos Mata with his "Caballo", in Igualada - Barcelona (Spain),
inaugurated on the 21 August 2003.
Height of the sculpture 6 meter.

2008, june: Exhibition "Haras du Pin", Le pin au Haras (Normandy) France
Yvan De Backer & Carlos Mata

Carreer:
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. 

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. 

Sculptures in public places:

Carlos Mata and his sculpture on
the "Rambla Vidal San Feliu de Guixols"
in Girona (Spain).
Height of the sculpture: 2,65 meter

Carlos Mata in studio