JOSE MARÍA YTURRALDE LÓPEZ (Cuenca, 1942). "Vertical Horizon", 2012. Acrylic on canvas. Signed, dated and titled on the back. Measurements: 80 x 80 cm. D. in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Yturralde is a full member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos. He made his solo debut in 1969 with an exhibition entitled "Formas Computables", held at the Centro de Cálculo de la Universidad de Madrid. He soon began to receive important prizes, such as the Ibizagrafic of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Ibiza in 1972 and 1976, and the Europa Prize in Ancona, Italy, in 1972. Awarded a scholarship by the Juan March Foundation, in 1974 he travels to extend his training at M.I.T. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). After his period in the United States, he was invited to take part in the Toyama Now International Triennial in Japan in 1990. For the next two years he travels around the Soviet Union, invited by the Union of Russian Artists to give lectures on his work in Moscow, Leningrad and Samarkand, among other cities. He continues to receive awards, and was invited in 1996 by the U.N.A.M. in Mexico City. Yturralde has exhibited and given lectures all over the world, and has taken part in major international group exhibitions since the beginning of his career: São Paulo Biennial (1967), Museum of Fun in Tokyo (1979), Spanish Institute in New York (1996), etc. Particularly noteworthy are his solo exhibitions held at the M.I.T. and the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, as well as in various Parisian, Moscow, Spanish, American and Japanese galleries. Yturralde is represented in national and international museums such as the Cuenca Museum of Abstract Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Harvard Museum, the Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo, the Novgorod State Museum in Russia, the Patio Herreriano in Valladolid and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. In 2020 he was awarded the National Prize for Plastic Arts.