Caballo Drimaco

Studies: Academy for modern art in Barcelona and Paris

Carlos Mata was born in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) in 1949, and lived and worked in Barcelona, where he also died in July 2008. His influences come from the ground and the landscape. The subtle and special sensitivity of this born-by-the-Mediterranean Sea sculptor establishes an incredible combination of grace, style, and elegance in his work.

Mata showed in his sculptures the creativity of the villages as well as the mysterious way of the prehistoric art. One can easily see the beautiful bulls and cows, the stylized horses, which show the symbolic meaning of the animal. In fact, all or almost all of his sculptures symbolize a wish of freedom and the end to limitations of the human spirit. Every single work is mysterious and allows the viewer to uncover this hidden meaning or just to simply gaze at the form and line.

Carlos Mata's sculptures are based on the memories of his childhood as he makes an effort to obtain the original image that he could see when he was a child. This is why his sculptures are without many details, only some simple profiles, dark and essential. They seem playful, but hide an intense concept.

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.

WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- The “Carlos Mata’s Hall” in the Mochental Museum (DEU) opened in 2000
- Monumental iron sculpture "Caballo" in Igualada, Barcelona (ES). Height: 6 metres