Carlos Mata works his sculptures with a very personal language. The sculptor searches the essence of forms reducing to reality his pure lines. When you first look at his work, you will be surprised by the tenderness of his sculptures. It is as if the artist had extracted the best part of the work he is presenting us (animals, people, things) to make us enjoy just the mere moment of reckoning with them.

Carlos Mata was born in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) in 1949. His influences come from the ground and the landscape. Many of his works have the aspect of mud, a material, which has been worked by various generations of people from the island. The subtle and special sensitivity of this born-by-the-Mediterranean Sea sculptor establishes an incredible combination of grace, style, and elegance in his work. Mata shows in his sculptures the creativity of the villages as well as the mysterious way of the prehistoric art. One can easily see the beautiful bulls and cows, the stylized horses, which show the symbolic meaning of the animal. In fact, all or almost all of his sculptures symbolize a wish of freedom and the end to limitations of the human spirit. Every single work is mysterious and allows the viewer to uncover this hidden meaning or just to simply gaze at the form and line.

Carlos Mata's sculptures are based on the memories of his childhood as he makes an effort to obtain the original image that he could see when he was a child. This artist is able to find the original reality that defined his psychic along time ago. This is why his sculptures are so simple and without many details, only some simple profiles, dark and essential, treated very primitively. They seem playful. but hide an intense concept.