INDOC. Documentation Centre about Art and Nature

José Beulas retrospective at the Centro de Arte y Naturaleza

Beulas’ painting has become progressively more uniform as it moves ever closer to the essential. His depictions of nature contain the emotion that the natural world evokes and reflect on synthetic nature as manifested in landscape.

His contribution to the history of Spanish painting is reflected in 53 landscapes selected from public and private collections. These paintings are presented along with extensive documentation, including drawings executed when he was studying at the academy, sketches, letters, texts, publications, and works by other artists who were represented in José Beulas’ private collection, now the CDAN collection. This will be the first time some recently documented works, including pieces by Juan Gris and Francis Bacon, have been exhibited to the public.

Over a hundred black-and-white shots included in the show offer an intense, comprehensive and unique look at photographs taken and developed by José Beulas, a painter who uses his camera only to capture the intensity of the landscape, without any artistic intent, but who is nevertheless capable of conveying a distinctive, individual view of Huesca’s landscape.

Beulas has always been grateful for a grant he received from the Huesca City Council and the Huesca Provincial Council, which enabled him to pursue fine arts studies in Madrid and Italy. This sense of gratitude is what led him to generously donate his collection and property. For the first time, the public will be able to visit the studio of García de Paredes, built in the 1970s, and see the garden designed by José Beulas.

 

More information

CDAN. Centro de Arte y Naturaleza.
Fundación Beulas

Avda. Doctor Artero, s/n
22004 Huesca

Tel.: +34 974 23 98 93
Fax: +34 974 22 37 62

• CDAN Website

 

Source: texts CDAN. Photo by Fernando Alvira Banzo; Private collection.

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