The Bancaja Foundation presented this morning at its headquarters in Valencia the exhibition Every place is provisional by Calo Carratalá (Torrent, Valencia, 1959), that reviews his unique plastic expression of the natural environment after a career spanning more than 30 years working in the field of landscape, which has made him one of the current reference creators in contemporary Spanish landscaping.. The presentation has had participation of the president of the Bancaja Foundation, Rafael Alcon; the police station, Marisa Giménez Soler; y he artist Calo Carratala.
The sample brings together a selection of 37 large and small format works, created between 2013 y 2026 and belonging to three of Carratalá's main series, which are shown together for the first time in Valencia and with pieces made expressly for this exhibition.
The collections presented travel through the snowy mountains of Norway, reflected with a very short color palette and impregnated by a melancholy and forceful and clean beauty; the environment of the Amazon in Brazil and Peru with black forests, painted in pencil on paper, composing concise features that run through the depth of vegetation, weeds, highlights, waters and skies; the African landscapes of Tanzania and Senegal, characterized by intense green tones, contours, gaps and crevices; and baobabs, trees linked to local African cultures and traditions, that Calo Carratalon captured with the sanguine technique and that embody the strength of the community and its value as a support for ancestral generations..
The exhibition tour reveals the free gesture, quick and concise from the artist, composing sketched features, scratched, accurate and correct. In a synthesis exercise, his painting elevates the aesthetic drive of the landscape, generating an intimate alloy of air, color and time.
In the paintings of Calo Carratalon the painting of Dutch landscape painters from the 17th century is present, the poetics of 19th century English romantics such as William Turner or John Constable, or the German Caspar David Friedrich, and the drive of French impressionism and expressionism. In the production of the Valencian artist, this tradition of landscape discovery comes together with a contemporary vision from an ethical and ecological perspective., marked by the preservation of the environment and the protection of the environment.
