MANUEL ALCALA PINTOR

Manuel Alcalá Sanchez was born in the town of Benalúa de Guadix (Granada) in 1946. But as a child he moved with his parents to Barcelona in 1953.
At a very young age he experimented self-taught with drawing and painting, and later, his technical and drafting studies were for him a strong basis for contemporary artistic design.
His professional development led him to work in the technical field as an engineer in the Technical Project Department of the company ENASA-PEGASO, later IVECO, where he remained until his early retirement in 2007.
But throughout his life, Manuel Alcalá has known how to combine his work life with his main passion, which is painting.
He began his artistic career in 1976 with a painting exhibition at the “el Nus” gallery in Barcelona, ​​which was followed to this day by multiple group and individual exhibitions in Catalonia and Spain, among which those held in renowned galleries in Barcelona stand out. Professional art such as the Matisse (now Carme Espinet) and the Roglán and Lleonart of Barcelona and the Livrería” of Madrid.
His exhibitions have always had significant success, both by critics and by the spectators who visited them, and his work has been selected in many painting competitions.
Manuel Alcalá is an active artist who needs silence for his inspiration and his work. His painting, in continuous evolution, can be classified mainly within abstract currents, being defined as an intelligent balance between the reference of the visible world and a plastic language of geometric structure and oriented towards kineticism and an exploration and exploitation of the optical effects with which his objects seem to float within a dream of shapes and colors.
The work of Manuel Alcalá is included in important private collections, such as those of Josep Mª Boixareu, Josep Mª Bassols, Josep Mª Cadena i Catalán, Fons d'Art del Port de Tarragona and in the museum space “Llegat Francesc Galí” of the Municipal Pinacoteca from Palamós in Gerona
He is an artist referenced in the Ràfols Dictionary of Catalan Painters and has a book dedicated to him: "Painter of vital spaces", with his biography written by the art critic and collector Josep Mª Cadena.