CARLOS PASCUAL

Carlos Pascual graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Madrid and earned a doctorate from the University of Salamanca, where he teaches painting classes as a full time  professor. Throughout his artistic career, he has received various awards and scholarships, such as the Scholarship for the Research of new expressive forms that he was awarded by the Ministry of Culture in 1979. It is also worth mentioning the numerous pictorial interventions that he has carried out in the field of architecture, such as the ceramic mural decorations he made for EXPO 92 on the Island of Cartuja in Seville. In addition, he has held multiple individual and group exhibitions in Spain, and his work is present in leading public collections such as the Reina Sofía National Art Museum, the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and the La Caixa Foundation in Barcelona.

In general terms, his work is based on a series of aesthetic and conceptual assumptions that come from a free and personal review of the constructive and geometric avant-gardes of the 20th century. He puts into play a series of plastic approaches such as abstraction, compositional balance, color linked to form, the physical nature of the media, scale, flatness and three-dimensionality… All of which are understood in a self-referential sense i.e. the work describes itself while maintaining its autonomy at all times. Its existence does not obey any external factor of a narrative or symbolic nature, it only refers to its own presence as an object. In this sense, his career connects with minimalist and objectual traditions, although interpreted from a non-dogmatic or exclusive position. Instead, his work moves between geometry and sensuality, between order and emotion.

SOLO SHOWS

2012

Presencias Reales Galería ASTARTÉ Madrid. Spain

2008

Galería Guillermina Caicoya. Oviedo. Spain.

2005

Sala el Brocense. Cáceres. Spain.

2003

Colegio de Arquitectos. Almería. Spain.

1998

Galería Caracol. Valladolid. Spain.

1997

Galería Tráfico de Arte. León. Spain.

1993

Galería Albatros. Madrid. Spain.

GROUP SHOWS

2014

 ¿Quién teme a un monocromo? Galería Fernando Padrilla. Madrid. Spain.

2012

Mundo material. Galería Fernando Pradilla. Madrid. Spain.

2011

Territorio desconocido. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Madrid. Spain. 

2007

Reconocimientos. Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid. Spain.

Una conversación: Carlos Pascual y Emilio Gañán. Galería Angeles Baños. Badajoz. Spain.

2006

Bonds. Centro Cultural Español. Miami. USA.

2005

Entre gesto y norma. Galería Cubo Azul. León. Spain.

2002

Abstracciones. Sala de Exposiciones de Caja Castilla La Mancha. Talavera de la Reina (Toledo).

Spain.

Maravillas. Galería Belarde 20. Madrid. Spain.

1994

ARCO 94. Galería Albatros. Madrid. Spain.

AWARDS

1990

Enrique Ginestal Painting Award. Talavera de la Reina (Toledo). Spain.

1979

Ciudad de Alcalá de Henares Award. Madrid. Spain.

Premio Francisco Alcántara Award. Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid. Spain.

1976

Abril Painting Award. Madrid. Spain.