JOSÉ MANUEL BROTO GIMENO (Zaragoza, 1949).
"Paradise", 1997.
Diptych. Oil on canvas glued to wood.
Provenance: Carles Taché gallery, Barcelona, 1998.
Exhibitions: Broto, Carles Taché gallery, Barcelona, January-March 1998.
Signed, dated, located and titled on the back.
Measurements: 200 x 350 cm.
Broto articulates his plastic language using color, modulating it in subtle tonal variations that evoke musical symphonies. In this diptych, two universes populated by constellations and nebulae, unfold his idea of a Dantesque paradise.
Broto studied at the School of Arts and Crafts in Zaragoza, and exhibited his work for the first time in 1968, showing a style in line with constructivism. In 1972 he moved to Barcelona, where he founded the Trama group, and since 1985 he has lived and worked in Paris. After ten years in the French capital, during which he coincided with other Spanish artists such as Barceló, Campano and Sicilia, he moved to Mallorca. He has been awarded the National Prize of Plastic Arts (1995), in 1997 he was awarded the ARCO Prize of the Critics Association, and in 2003 the Aragón Goya Prize for Engraving. In 1995 the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him. He is currently represented in the Museo de Arte Abstracto Español de Cuenca, the FRAC (Midi-Pyrénées, France), the Chase Manhattan Bank Collection in New York, the Juan March Foundation, the Reina Sofía, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Fond National d'Art Contemporain in Paris, the Kampo Collection in Tokyo, the Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona, the DOVE Collection in Zurich, the Ateneum in Helsinki, the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation in Amsterdam, the Maeght in France, La Caixa in Barcelona, the Preussag in Hanover and the IVAM in Valencia.