JOSE MARÍA CAL CV
Name: Jose María Cal
Place of residence: Spain
Address: (Valencia, Spain)
e:mail: josemariacal@gmail.com
Web: https://www.josemariacal.com
https://linktr.ee/josemariacal
https://www.facebook.com/public/Jose-Maria-Cal-Carvajal
https://www.instagram.com/pintorjosecal/?hl=es
https://twitter.com/home?lang=es
https://www.linkedin.com/in/josemariacal/
https://www.pinterest.es/josemariacal/
Languages: Spanish, English, Catalan
Artistic training:
- Course: Sustainable art, crafts and creativity: natural inks and dyes. 2024. Taught by the Polytechnic University of Valencia
- Masterclass. Plenearist Landscape Painting. 2023. By Helena Blankenstein, Fine arts graduate.
- Industrial Designer from the EAOA School of Art and Design in Valencia. Year 1986. Being number 1 in his class.
- Painting course at the Barreira Art School, Valencia. Year 76.
Memberships:
- From 2023. ArteEnred Group
Representation in galleries:
- Agaphe Management Barcelona Gallery
- Pitijopos Gallery Sanlúcar de Barrameda
Art Magazine:
- 2025. Artistic Hub Magazine. From Abril 30
Solo Exhibitions:
- 2024. “Paisatges”. Mario Monreal Cultural Center of Sagunto. From October 1st to December 2nd.
- 2024. Hopper Space. Madrid. April 1 to April 30 Street Cava Baja, 40, 28005 Madrid.
International Exhibitions:
- 2025. Digital exhibition Golden Duck Gallery, Budapest.
- 2025. Visual Art Exhibition. Artistic Hub Magazine. Switzerland. From March 1 to April 20.
- Biennal Intercontinental 2025. Brasilia, Brazil
Painting Exhibitions:
- 2025. Group exhibition. A Torrent of Chocolate. Torrente EMAT. From April 24 to June 27.
- 2025 Collective Exhibiton Fucar22 Art Gallery. Madrid. Opening on Friday, February 14 at
7:30 p.m. Duration: until March 15, 2025. Address: Calle Fucar 22, 28014 Madrid
- 2025. Collective exhibition Gran Vía Cultural. Madrid. Franquearte. From January 13
to February 2. Naturaleza Fragmentada.
- 2024. Collective exhibition Casa Cultura Puerto Sagunto. From November 3 to 29
- 2024 - Collective Exhibition October 05 to December 12. Mucbe Benicarló, Castellón.
- 2024 - Collective Exhibition February 10 to February 25. Pitijopos Gallery, Sanlúcar de
Barrameda, Cadiz.
- 2023 - VI Biennale of Valencia. Ciutat Vella Oberta 2023. November 14 to
January 07, 2024. Selected.
- 2023 - Collective Exhibition. Circuit Artíst. Santa Cristina d´Aro. Girona. November December 2023.
- 2023 - Collective Exhibition October- November, 2023. Burjassot Cultural Center. Topic: “A
Sorolla’s purpose.” Valencian Culturarte Association.
- 2023 - Collective Exhibition June 23. Cuttoo Gallery Madrid.
- 2023 - Contemporary Art Collective Spring 23. Circuit Artístic. Picasso Hotel Gallery.
Toroella de Montgrí. Catalonia.
- 2023 - XVI International Exhibition Virtual Museum Mundoarti 01-03-2023
- 2022 - Selected Collective Exhibition La Salita, work Bodegons01 13.11.22
- 2022 - Collective Exhibition Abartium Gallery. Calldetenes (Barcelona). Construction site:
Bodegons02 15.11.22
- 2021 - IX International Exhibition Virtual Museum Mundoarti 02-11-2021
- 2021 - Selected Collective Exhibition Feeding ArtWorld 2021
- Awards:
- Finalist. XXX Algemesí Painting Contests 2025
- Finalist. LXXXII Centelles Painting Contest 2024
- Finalist. Bodegas Lairén 2024 National Competition. 3V
Jose María Cal is a Valencian plastic artist. He currently has his painting studio in the small town of Petrés, Valencia (Spain). Surrounded by mountains and nature, it is the perfect space to develop his artistic work. He has lived in the city of Valencia, Spain. He also in the Valencian towns of Xabia, El Puig, Puzol, Tabernes Blanques and Petrés.
Artistic formation
- Masterclass. Plenearist Landscape Painting. 2023. Taught Helena Blankenstein,
degree in fine arts.
- Industrial Designer from the School of Applied Arts of Valencia (current School of Art and Higher School of Design).
- Painting course at the Barreira Art School, Valencia. Year.
Youth and childhood
Because of his love and gift for painting, his father enrolled him in the Barreira Academy of Fine Arts in the city of Valencia. The painters he most admired as a child were Dalí, Picasso and Miró. He then made small surrealist paintings where the Universe was always present. To create his world, she painted and decorated all the walls and closets in his room. Later and due to his inclination towards the artistic, he studied Industrial Design in the city of Valencia. There he learned to really paint. He received classes in nude from life, drawing of the human figure, painting, materials, composition, perspective, study of tonal values, development of artistic projects, etc. All the students went out with the teacher to exhibitions in art galleries in Valencia.
In his Product Design studies, he painted watercolors of landscapes for a store in Valencia that sold paintings and drawings. He also worked for a couple of years drawing all kinds of component plans in a plastic bottle manufacturing line in Manises.
For twenty-three years he worked as a design engineer in an automobile components factory, where he made hundreds of drawings and creative studies with materials such as temperas, pastel pencils and markers in the development of his work. During that stage he was able to acquire an apartment in the city of Valencia and build his painting studio. There he was able to develop his first major works in acrylic painted on the floor and in a process of researching techniques with the use of materials such as marble dust and plaster. It was in the 2000s. His artistic influences in that period were Spanish painters such as Miquel Barceló, Miguel Angel Campano, Mompó, Gordillo and Jose María Sicilia. Later, during his time as a writer, he drew and illustrated all the graphic images contained in his travel, cooking and hospitality books.
Pictorial techniques and formats
After many years using acrylics in his paintings, he began using oil in combination with acrylic. He studied and researched glazes and glacis in oil. He used and tested different grades of varnishes in percentages of alkyd media, turpentine essence and poppy oil. Total absence of the use of black and white. Currently he is focused on abstract landscape painting and the use of spatulas, palettes and stencil printing. Incorporation of the use of white and its enormous possibilities and the application of broken colors (with burnt umber) or complementary ones. Much of his work remains semi-abstract, but he is often drawn outside of his studio by the desire to paint directly from nature. His creative process is always the same. He starts with pencil and marker sketches. Study of values (lights and shadows). The second phase consists of carrying out color studies in small format. Maximum in A4. In that space he can apply the color without conditions, intuitively and in total freedom, performing two or three triads or quadriads of colors in each test. From this small format he transfers those studies of colors and tones to the large format, normally a wooden frame with white canvas and in a size of 1 meter x 1 meter.
Sources of creative influence
The artist indicates that he is fundamentally nourished by nature. The sensations of enjoyment of it are represented in the form of sketches and written notes. He also draws from modern and futuristic architectural design, interior design, cinema and gastronomy.
Solo Exhibitions:
- 2024. Hopper Space. Madrid. April 1 to April 30, 2024. Street Cava Baja, 40 Madrid
Group Exhibitions:
- 2024 - Collective Exhibition October 05 to December 12. Mucbe Benicarló, Castellón.
- 2024 - Collective Exhibition February 10 to February 25. Pitijopos Gallery, Sanlúcar de
Barrameda, Cadiz.
- 2023 - VI Biennale of Valencia. Ciutat Vella Oberta 2023. November 14 to
January 07, 2024. Selected.
- 2023 - Collective Exhibition. Circuit Artíst. Santa Cristina d´Aro. Girona. November
December 2023.
- 2023 - Collective Exhibition October- November, 2023. Burjassot Cultural Center. Topic: “A
Sorolla’s purpose.” Valencian Culturarte Association.
- 2023 - Collective Exhibition June 23. Cuttoo Gallery Madrid.
- 2023 - Contemporary Art Collective Spring 23. Circuit Artístic. Picasso Hotel Gallery.
Toroella de Montgrí. Catalonia.
- 2023 - XVI International Exhibition Virtual Museum Mundoarti 01-03-2023
- 2022 - Selected Collective Exhibition La Salita, work Bodegons01 13.11.22
- 2022 - Collective Exhibition Abartium Gallery. Calldetenes (Barcelona). Construction site:
Bodegons02 15.11.22
- 2021 - IX International Exhibition Virtual Museum Mundoarti 02-11-2021
- 2021 - Selected Collective Exhibition Feeding ArtWorld 2021
- Puçol Village Painting Competition. Year 2013
- El Puig outdoor quick painting contest. Year 2009
- Bancaja painting competition. Year 2008
CONCEPTUAL SPEECH
He
artist's goals have been and are to evolve toward abstraction without
losing figurative elements that help the viewer situate themselves
within the work. This allows the viewer to gain insight into the
creator's intentions, in this case, references to nature, the
landscape, and its symbolic elements, but also to the life
experiences lived within them, primarily in childhood and
adolescence.
The intention is to explore a new, innovative
pictorial language about the possibilities of abstraction from an
ecological perspective.
Interpretations of the reality of the
objective world from the artist's inner and subjective world, from
that area that belongs to the most personal.
The central ideas
explored correspond to the creation of new representative elements
about how to express this inner world in relation to everything that
the objective world of the territory offers us. Common resources of
abstraction include expressionism, chance, intuitions, small marks,
and gestures. The creation of iconographies, geometric elements in
the work, symmetries, collages, monotype stencils, linear strokes,
and dripping. I work on the base backgrounds of the works, etc.
Creation and erasure. Failure and frustration as elements of the
pictorial process to achieve excellence.
Since his youth, his
works have referenced nature, whether through still lifes or
landscapes. Influenced by representatives of early expressionism in
the 1990s, such as Miquel Barceló and Jose María Sicilia, he works
with strong textures, always compulsively painting on the studio
floor. Other current influences have come from artists such as
Rauchenberg, Miki Leal, Helen Frankentaler, Joan Mitchell, and
currently Ina Gerken and Pam Evelyn.
He typically works with
acrylics, oils, and oil pastels. Occasionally, enamels and spray
paint.
Nature painting can become a powerful tool to inspire
viewers to reflect more deeply, shifting their perspective toward a
more ecological and sustainable attitude. Through art, the process of
ecological restoration and the harmonious coexistence between
humanity and the environment can be represented. The artist invites
viewers to a sustainable and planet-friendly coexistence.
Ultimately,
he seeks to transform his paintings into a kind of spiritual fusion
and purity with the natural environment.
He belongs to the ArteEnred association to be able to share and exhibit works with them within the Spanish Artistic Circuit.
Galleries representing Jose María Cal
- Agaphe Management Gallery Barcelona
- Pitijopos Gallery Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz
My studio
ARTIST STATEMENT
Specializing
in nature and landscape, he approaches the environment through
sensitive abstraction. Color, light, and emotion are key to his work.
His painting seeks a contemplative connection with nature.
Each
brushstroke becomes a reflection of his inner landscape, a mirror
through which he confronts his fears, hopes, and dreams. Painting
becomes a sanctuary, a space where he can unravel the complexities of
existence, finding solace from his life's torments in the immense
pleasure of working in the most intimate solitude.
He works
and researches in an evolution toward abstraction, inspired by an
ecological perspective. He is interested in contrasts and the formal
composition of his paintings. The play between complementary colors,
glazes, and opacities. Symmetries, geometries, collages... One of the
key aspects of his work is the processual dimension. The work is
conceived as a structure evolving toward excellence in quality, where
construction and deconstruction coexist, and where failure,
emptiness, or erasure are not flaws, but rather constituent elements
of the pictorial discourse. The initial imagined project is
completely different from the final work.
His works invite us
to look closely and experience the territory. They convey a poetic
and ecological vision of the landscape. Sketched narratives invite
the viewer to complete them, to create their own world by observing
the work.
EXHIBITIONS and AWARDS
By MundoArti
08/04/2024
Hopper Madrid is a Madrid establishment that is part of our exhibition project. They are committed to art and strive to offer spaces for numerous artists to present their projects. This time, they have received many applications from artists to exhibit, and Jose María has been one of those chosen to do so this April 2024.
Jose María Cal graduated in Industrial Design from the EAAOA (Current School of Art and Design of Valencia). He has also completed painting studies at the Barreira School of Valencia and a Plenearist Landscape Masterclass in 2023. He has also trained in printing techniques such as monotype and screen printing. It has been selected for the VI Biennial of Valencia Ciutat Vellla Oberta 2023. In addition, it has held numerous group exhibitions such as the Homage to Joaquín Sorolla in Burjassot for the Culturarte Association in 2023, the Collective Exhibition at the Abartium gallery in Calldetenes, Barcelona or the Exhibition in the Pitijopos Gallery in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz.
Jose María Cal's painting helps him communicate with others. The “painting speaks about oneself.” When we have difficulties relating to ourselves in this artificial world of ours, so prone to loneliness and isolation, plastic work is a magnificent means to show others our life experiences.... Memories and Valencian passages: Jávea, Cullera, Denia , Tuéjar, Chelva, El Saler, Pinedo, La Malvarrosa, Valencia, Alcocéber....
The painting speaks about oneself. When we have difficulties relating to ourselves in this artificial world of ours, plastic work is a magnificent means to show others our life experiences.
Some works by the artist exhibited at Hopper Madrid
In his first artistic steps back in the eighties when he was studying product design, his influences were strongly marked by the artists of that time, Miquel Barceló, Jose María Sicilia or Miguel Angel Campano. It was expressionism. Later, and at the beginning of the 2000s, he began to opt for surrealism.
As a true obligation, the artist needs to create positive spaces where festivity and color serve as the best means to express all his vital desires. In this work the color, light and textures of the palimpests speak, but geometry and abstraction also speak.
We encourage you to discover the work of this artist at Hopper: C. de la Cava Baja, 40, 28005 Madrid; and follow his work on his Instagram profile @pintorjosecal
- 2024 - Collective Exhibition February 10 to February 25. Pitijopos Gallery, Sanlúcar de
Barrameda, Cadiz.
- 2024. VI Biennale of Valencia. Ciutat Vella Oberta 2023. November 14 to
January 07. Selected.
December 2023.
Collective Exhibition October- November, 2023. Burjassot Cultural Center. Topic: “A
Sorolla’s purpose.” Valencian Culturarte Association.
Contemporary Art Collective Spring 23. Circuit Artístic. Picasso Hotel Gallery.
Toroella de Montgrí. Catalonia.
Bodegons02 15.11.22
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