{"id":10911,"date":"2020-04-24T13:59:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/?p=10911"},"modified":"2020-04-24T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T12:59:49","slug":"jose-luis-zumeta-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/2020\/04\/24\/jose-luis-zumeta-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing of Jos\u00e9 Luis Zumeta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We have just received the sad news of the passing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/artist\/jose-luis-zumeta\/\">Jos\u00e9 Luis Zumeta<\/a>, painter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/art-gallery-in-barcelona\/\">our gallery<\/a> and a key figure on the Basque scene in the 1960s.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We had been aware of his work for a long time, but it wasn&#8217;t until 2018 when we visited his studios in San Sebastian and Navarra to prepare his first show in our gallery. We found an affable man, quiet and not much of a talker. His rotund work talked for him. The explosion of color and the gestures of his paintings made very difficult to choose which would be part of our show. It was a magnificent work, passionate, violent and brave.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We had the satisfaction of having met an exceptional artist, a wonderful human being and a renovator: alongside Oteiza or Chillida among others he was a founding member of the GAUR group, the artists who revolutionized the plastics at the Basque Country in the second half of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"es-ES\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10916 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jose-luis-zumeta-y-Usoa-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jose-luis-zumeta-y-Usoa-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jose-luis-zumeta-y-Usoa-150x119.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jose-luis-zumeta-y-Usoa-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jose-luis-zumeta-y-Usoa-1024x810.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jose-luis-zumeta-y-Usoa-1100x870.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Jose-luis-zumeta-y-Usoa.jpg 1156w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p lang=\"es-ES\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Luis and Usoa Zumeta, July 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have just received the sad news of the passing of Jos\u00e9 Luis Zumeta, painter of our gallery and a key figure on the Basque scene in the 1960s. We had been aware of his work for a long time, but it wasn&#8217;t until 2018 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10924,"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10911\/revisions\/10924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saladalmau.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}