JUAN PITA

Architect and artist hand in hand ... 

Juan Pita has design and art in his blood because more than his way of life, it is his passion. Architect and painter graduated from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid and the Higher School of Fine Arts of San Fernando, respectively, he has practised both careers with remarkable success. 

He was born in Madrid in 1947 and lived in Segovia for more than half of his life, where he developed his entire artistic career as a painter, architect, printmaker, illustrator, and graphic and industrial designer. 

At the beginning of his career he collaborated as a graphic humourist for the humour weeklies La Codorniz and Hermano Lobo, between 1973 and 1976. 

As an architect and designer, the Bauhaus school has been a major influence on his work, an influence that has also reached his artistic work. The Bauhaus, more than a design school, became a movement that revolutionized architecture, design and art, and Pita has been able to incorporate in his most recent work some references and characteristic elements of one of the iconic buildings of the Bauhaus. 

As a versatile artist, he does not stop investigating and expanding his creative experience, working new and varied techniques such as oil painting, acrylic painting, screen printing, charcoal and pastel drawing, also passing through etching and more recently the use of mixed techniques: ‘texcollages’ that combine, in collage mode, canvases painted separately with flat coloured backgrounds, or ‘cybercollages,’ which combine, also in collage mode, digitally image-processing with acrylic or oil paint. 

In his more than 40 years as an artist, Juan Pita has held countless individual and group exhibitions, both in Spain and abroad. The quality of his artistic creation is widely recognized in the artistic world, being awarded with some national awards, and including several of his works in private collections. 

Cyberurban 

His most recent exhibition called Cyberurban is a magnificent explosion of colour, shapes and textures, harmoniously mixing very intense flat colours with graphics. In this unique collection, he combines different frames and unconventional formats: circular, triangular, and also multiple achieved with the use of different superimposed supports, thus cutting edges, and creating different planes. 

In Cyberurban Juan Pita also includes works with the technique of texcollage or collage of paintings, where you can see fabrics painted once and painted again when incorporating them into the base canvas, creating textures and a juxtaposition of colours that give a unique sense to the work. 

In Cyberurban Juan Pita also includes pieces with the Texcollage technique or collage of paintings, where it can be seen how the fabric is painted once and one more time when it is incorporated to the grounded canvas, creating unique textures and a juxtaposition of colours that give an exceptional sense to the work.

Based on his experience, the artist himself explains: ‘I think that, even if not consciously, a painter transmits and reflects his world and his experiences, his illusions and his fears, his achievements and his frustrations. I would like, above all, that my work does not leave those who see it, indifferent,’ and his works definitely do not go unnoticed. 

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