BIOGRAPHY


RAFAEL MORTOL CARVIA was born August 19, 1935 in Granada and died in the same city at age 68 to fulfil, in July 2003.
Was trained as a sculptor with the Granada painters, that leave from Luís de Vicente, leathers already from a very early, in the most prestigious workshops, as López Burgos, and as an intern at the time, so essential for the formation of the artistSchool of art and crafts. Hence his solid training and profundísima wisdom on the art of imagery, from knowledge of the behaviour of all sorts of materials, the nobility of the different wood, the humidity of the mud, the Temperance of the bronze, the hardness of the marble, the warmth of the colors. Rafael always spoke of the attributes of matter as if it were its character.
This masterly management and deep knowledge of the matter, was perhaps what pushed you to make the qualitative leap that took him from the master and domain of the craftsman, the mysterious adventure and ignorance at the time of the risk of developing, to interest in disclosing, in addition, the mystery (perhaps the mystery is no more than the lack of knowledge) of the deep essence of that same area.
Therefore, from that moment, Rafael Mortol, would be the sculptor, being erected thereafter as the poet of the internalization of the matter. In that another search in that now his intention or intuition, not interested especially the alteration of the appearance of the forms already given, but that on the basis of a basic idea which is the human body, with a predilection for the female bodyprovisions him to achieve his own style, the subjection of such forms to a minimum distorting gesture. The realism of his figures, disfiguring it in intended to show in the play, which abstract has being, gaining all his work a stylistic cohesion, a very own style quite particular.
Its versatility and knowledge of the art in history, led him to travel through space and time; from the altars in cathedrals and churches by more pilgrims places, the thrones of the Christ of the Gypsies and the Virgen de la Esperanza, image of San Cecilio…., from his studio in the Alcaiceria, where he worked a significant fund sizes, (work that is recognized by the inclusion in the encyclopedia of Flemish art, three volumes, forthcoming, directed by Professor D. Manuel López, supported by the team "The Hazel"). In his allegorical interpretations of the classical myths, I abduction of Leda, abduction of Europe..., already in his Bohemian study of calle Huertas in Madrid; from the baroque to modernity.


Rafael Mortol Carvia moves his Studio to the Madrid of the 1970s, and remains there in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His workshop to the calle Huertas ras witnessed these bustling decades, cataloged as a sociological phenomenon. In Madrid it emerged thanks to the reaction and energy of the artist as he injected concern and a new way of seeing the world. To the world. It is a time to work hard but fruitful. It works the portrait where a sculptor measured full capacity of material performance of the spirit. Fruits of this experience were the first award Commemorative Medal of the Silver Jubilee of the promotion of the King in the general Academy of Zaragoza. And anthological exhibition at the home of cows of the community of Madrid, in the Retiro, 1990. This extensive exhibition and participation in the most important sculpture exhibition that took the city of Granada in the savings in in 1972 along with Sanchez, Cayetano Hannibal, López Burgos, Bernardo Olmedo, and many more up in number fourteenenvanecía you it greatly.
His works are distributed in important collections of United States, European and several Latin American republics. Also his work is part of the funds of the prestigious Hall of art: Van Dijck of Gijón.
He returned to his homeland in 1992, where still working tirelessly clay, bronze, marble and wood. Their talleres-estudios were a continuous exposure of express natures.

HIS MARK:

-1957: WORKSHOP SCULPTURE IN JAÉN.


-1959: FIRST STUDY SCULPTURE IN GRANADA. STREET PURSUIT OF RIVERA. RELIEF OF THE FALLEN CADET, IN MEMORY TO A FAMILY THAT GIVES NAME TO THE STREET.


-1960: SECOND STUDY IN GRANADA. IN THE ALCAICERIA, TENDENCY OF THE OLD SCHOOL GRENADINE. CLASSICISM.


-1962: SAN CECILIO, PATTERN OF GRANADA, IN THE ALBAICÍN.


-1968: WORKS IN ANDALUSIA, MADRID, MILAN.


-1972: EXCEPTIONAL GRANADA SCULPTURE EXHIBITION. GALLERIES CAJA GENERAL DE AHORROS, ORGANIZED BY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE.


-1974: MOVED TO MADRID TO LEARN ABOUT CURRENT ARTISTIC MOVEMENTS.


-1976: CÁDIZ. RELIGIOUS SCULPTURE. INDIVIDUALS.


-1978: SCULPTURE OF THOUGHT, RELIGIOUS SCULPTURE, SCULPTURAL GROUPS FOR GARDENS.


-1980: SELECTED FOR THE REALIZATION OF THE COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL OF THE SILVER WEDDING OF THE PROMOTION OF S. M. KING, OF THE ACADEMY GENERAL DE ZARAGOZA, CURRENTLY AT THE MUSEUM OF THE ARMY.


-1984: EXHIBITED IN SALONS NATIONAL EDITOR. FORTY WORKS, MASTERY OF MATERIALS, DIVERSITY ISSUES, WORKS THAT WILL FIT IN THE NEW REALISM.


-1985: EXHIBITION IN GIJÓN, WORKS IN IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND SEVERAL IBERO-AMERICAN REPUBLICS.


-1986: WORKS IN VARIOUS GALLERIES MADRID. STUDY OF WORK IN A CONTINUOUS EXHIBITION LOCATED ON CALLE SANTA MARIA NO. 34 OF MADRID.


-1987: DONATION AUCTIONED SCULPTURE (IN ROOM OF ART LAST) TO THE FOUNDATION FOR THE COMPLETION OF THE WORKS IN THE CATHEDRAL OF THE ALMUDENA.


-1989: EXHIBITION AT CASA DE VACAS (RETIRO PARK). SPONSORED BY THE CITY OF MADRID. JUNTA MUNICIPAL DE RETIRO.


-1990: SELECTED FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE MUSEUM OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS OF SAN FERNANDO, C / ALCALÁ (MADRID). (BY THE CABINET OF DRAWINGS OF THE MUSEUM.) CONSERVATIVE SCHOLAR: JOSÉ Mª AZCÁRATE RISTORI)


-1992: RETURNS TO GRANADA WHERE ESTABLISHED HIS ESTUDIO-EXPOSICIÓN CONTINUOUS SECTION, IN THE OVEN AT MARINA STREET, 2. GRANADA.


-1994: INCLUDED IN THE EDICCIÓN OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIC DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS SPANIARDS OF THE 20TH CENTURY. (MADRID-1994).


-1998: PUTS ITS LAST TALLER-ESTUDIO AND CONTINUOUS EXPOSURE IN CALLE PUENTEZUELAS, NO. 34. IN GRANADA.


(In the neighborhood of his childhood, where he began and ended his vocation). (As a result living the profession of an artist, working hard until the last breath of life, with his great strength of spirit that characterized him.)


-1999: INCLUSION IN THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE FLAMENCO ART, DIRECTED BY PROFESSOR D. MANUEL LOPEZ RODRIGUEZ, DURING HIS RESEARCH AND WRITING TEAM 'HAZEL' FOR ITS FUTURE EDICCÓN IN 3 VOLUMES OF THE "GREAT HISTORY OF FLAMENCO IN GRANADA"IN THE CHAPTER: ARTS AND FLAMENCO.


-2003: "IN MEMORIAM": ANTHOLOGICAL EXHIBITION BY D. JOSE HUERTAS, "CONTINENTAL ROOM", STREET SEMINAR, 3. GRANADA.

-PERSONAL DOCUMENTATION:
 

-Publication: "Granada in the arts" by LORENZO RUIZ of PERALTA (1974)


-ENCYCLOPEDIC DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS SPANIARDS IN THE 20TH CENTURY. MADRID-1994


MAGAZINES:


-batik:-EXTRA BOLOGNA (December-86)


-EXTRA arch ' 87, dedicated to the artists of Madrid (January-87)


-EXTRA BASEL. ARTISTS OF SPAIN (JUNE/JULY-87)


-THE INVESTOR. (MAY-80)


-GALLERY 30 DAYS (NOVEMBER-85)


-THE VOICE OF THE DISTRICT. (DECEMBER-91)


TELEVISION INTERVIEW: "LIVE EACH DAY" (1985)


Press (interviews):


-COUNTRY: By Carlos CENTENO (25/02/72), (18/07/72) and (19/12/72);


By Miguel ANGEL BLANCO (28/09/72) and (14/12/72)


By JUAN BUSTOS (28/12/75) and (18/01/77)


-ABC: Manuel GALLEGO Morrell (27/07/73)


-5 d five days: per Pachi Romero (19/08/83) and José PÉREZ-GUERRA (20/08/81) and (30/11/84)


-ABOVE: On culture opened by Julia SÁEZ (31/01/78)


-THE impartial: Per peace FERNANDEZ (9/08/79)


-IDEAL: By Marino ANTEQUERA (14/12/72)


IN MEMORIAM:


In opinion: by Paula Marin Girón (6/06/03)


In opinion: Open Forum: by Carmen Ocaña (25/07/03)


Podis find more information in honor of my father, at the following Web page: www.mortol.es